num_pages: 219
description: This book is a collection of sixteen essays by scholars who participated in a Mythology Symposium at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, in March 1991. The essays are presented under four subject Ancient Myths in Modern Contexts (Ulysses, Don Quixote, Don Juan, Amazonian Indians), Myth and Society (French-Canadian Messianism, American Exceptionalism, German-Jewish Tolerance, and Socialism), Myth and the Human Condition (in works of Camus, Ionesco, and Beckett), and Myth, Science, and Technology (the Gaia-concept, artificial intelligence, post-nuclear Re-Creation, and the film «Back to the Future, Part II»).
language: English
title: Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern
titlecomplete: Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern (The Plattsburgh Studies in the Humanities)
publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers