Shelley Revalued: Essays from the Gregynog ConferenceKelvin Everest Leicester University Press, 1983 - 234 pages |
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... mythology , in his essay , ' On the devil and devils ' , a pertinent discussion of the attempt of monotheistic religions to come to terms with evil : Paradise Lost has conferred on the modern mythology a systematic form ; when the ...
... mythology , in his essay , ' On the devil and devils ' , a pertinent discussion of the attempt of monotheistic religions to come to terms with evil : Paradise Lost has conferred on the modern mythology a systematic form ; when the ...
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... mythology by applying the methods of comparative analysis . Sometimes this method even daringly included the Judaeo- Christian scriptures , treating them ( as Shelley did himself ) as merely another mythology on its way to extinction ...
... mythology by applying the methods of comparative analysis . Sometimes this method even daringly included the Judaeo- Christian scriptures , treating them ( as Shelley did himself ) as merely another mythology on its way to extinction ...
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... mythology or religion is considered to be an accurate statement of historical truth , but expressed in terms requiring special objectivity and sensitivity for its perception . Of course , the central thought here is far from original ...
... mythology or religion is considered to be an accurate statement of historical truth , but expressed in terms requiring special objectivity and sensitivity for its perception . Of course , the central thought here is far from original ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | viii |
MARILYN BUTLER | xiv |
Myth and mythmaking in the Shelley circle | 19 |
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