Mythic gaps

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Distant Episodes: A Briefing On Travels Mythic and Mundane

Advances in technology, while improving the conditions and modes of travel, have not obviated its dangers or reduced the mythical content and potential of travel experience. The present essay attempts a provisional survey of foreign travel as a recurring motif in the history of consciousness and as a mythically redolent theme in literature, film, and other forms of expression. Critical expositi...

The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction

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Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain

Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Description The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who ...

A Mythic Perspective of Commodification on the World Wide Web

development of new markets and products. As globalization shrinks the world marketplace, corporations are forced to seek both new customers and products to sell. Commodification is the process of transforming objects, ideas and even people into merchandise. The recent growth of the World Wide Web has caught the attention of the corporate world, and they are attempting to convert a free-share-ba...