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Myth and the Modern Problem: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain

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This dissertation, "Myth and the Modern Problem: Mythic Thinking in Twentieth-Century Britain," argues that a widespread phenomenon best described as "mythic thinking" emerged in the early twentieth century as way for a variety of thinkers and key cultural groups to frame and articulate their anxieties about, and their responses to,...

Keyword:

twentieth century, intellectuals, modernity, Britain, and myth

Subject:

History

Creator:

Matthew Kane Sterenberg

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

08/30/2018

Date Modified:

08/30/2018

Date Created:

2007-12-10

Resource Type:

Dissertation
Resilient Revelations: Apocalyptic Fiction in the Soviet 1920s

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This dissertation investigates the nature of apocalyptic fiction in the first Soviet decade. In my introduction, I consider the secondary or underground status that apocalyptic thought assumed during this period vis a vis the prevailing cultural ethos of utopianism. I assert that Russian literary apocalyptic persisted as a genre by...

Keyword:

modernism, Olesha, myth, apocalypse, Pil'nyak, and Mandel'stam

Subject:

Slavic Languages and Literatures

Creator:

Clairon C Palmer

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

07/26/2018

Date Modified:

07/26/2018

Date Created:

2007-05-14

Resource Type:

Dissertation