Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern

Table of contents

• Title Page ii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents vii
• Table of Contents ix
• Preface xi
• Ancient Myths in Modern Contexts 1
• If Gods Were Hormones: Fractals, Catastrophes and Other Good Things in Homer's Odyssey 3
• Notes and Comments 12
• Appendix B 14
• Parody And - The Character of Ulysses 26
• The Labyrinth and the Minotaur in Don Quixote and "The House of Asterion" by Jorge Luis Borges 29
• Don Juan as Myth 45
• Amazonian Indian Myths in Mário De Andrade's Macunaéma (1928) 65
• Myth and Society 75
• French-Canadian Messianism 77
• Endnotes 86
• The Myth of American Exceptionalism and Global Peace 87
• The Myth of Tolerance: Historical Dimensions of a German-Jewish Friendship 95
• Socialism: Myth and Reality 105
• Terrorism And/Or Sacrifice in Les Justes 127
• Notes 137
• The Modern "Myth of Incommunicability" in Ionesco's Theater: The Chairs and the Bald Soprano 139
• Writing the Body: "Qui Tient Le/La Greffe?" 147
• Myth, Science, and Technology 155
• From Science to Mythology: A New Vision of Reality 157
• References 167
• The Myth of Mind as Machine: Mankind's Misunderstanding of Self 173
• Myths of Re(-)creation: Mythology in the (post-)nuclear Worl d 185
• Myths Doubling Back to Back to the Future Part II a Ii-Part Future: The Two Back-To-Back Doubling Myths 195
• The Authors of This Book 209
• The Editors 213
• Index 215

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