Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization
- 2 Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
- 3 Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer
- 4 The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips
- 5 The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern
- 6 ‘Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers’ Responses to American Success Mythologies
- 7 ‘No Way Back Forever’: American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
- 8 Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor
- 9 The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction
- 10 Mythologies of ‘Ecstatic immersion’: America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot
- 11 Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz
- 12 Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium
- 13 Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's Writing
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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Acknowledgements
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization
- 2 Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich
- 3 Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer
- 4 The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips
- 5 The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern
- 6 ‘Cheap, On Sale, American Dream': Contemporary Asian American Women Writers’ Responses to American Success Mythologies
- 7 ‘No Way Back Forever’: American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy
- 8 Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor
- 9 The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction
- 10 Mythologies of ‘Ecstatic immersion’: America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot
- 11 Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz
- 12 Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium
- 13 Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's Writing
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
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- American MythologiesNew Essays on Contemporary Literature, pp. ix - xPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2005