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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Introduction
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Chapter 1 Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization -
Chapter 2 Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich1 -
Chapter 3 Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer1 -
Chapter 4 The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips -
Chapter 5 The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern -
Chapter 6 ‘Cheap, On Sale, American Dream’: Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies -
Chapter 7 ‘No Way Back Forever’: American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy -
Chapter 8 Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor1 -
Chapter 9 The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction -
Chapter 10 Mythologies of ‘Ecstatic immersion’: America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot -
Chapter 11 Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz -
Chapter 12 Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium -
Chapter 13 Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's Writing - Notes on Contributors
- Index
Epigraph
Epigraph
- Source:
- American Mythologies
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Epigraph
- Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Indians with Voices: Revisiting Savagism and Civilization -
Chapter 2 Wild Hope: Love, Money and Mythic Identity in the Novels of Louise Erdrich1 -
Chapter 3 Float like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Mythologies of Representation in Selected Writings on Boxing by Norman Mailer1 -
Chapter 4 The Secret Sharing: Myth and Memory in the Writing of Jayne Anne Phillips -
Chapter 5 The Individual's Ghost: Towards a New Mythology of the Postmodern -
Chapter 6 ‘Cheap, On Sale, American Dream’: Contemporary Asian American Women Writers' Responses to American Success Mythologies -
Chapter 7 ‘No Way Back Forever’: American Western Myth in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy -
Chapter 8 Native American Visions of Apocalypse: Prophecy and Protest in the Fiction of Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor1 -
Chapter 9 The Brave New World of Computing in Post-war American Science Fiction -
Chapter 10 Mythologies of ‘Ecstatic immersion’: America, The Poem and the Ethics of Lyric in Jorie Graham and Lisa Jarnot -
Chapter 11 Whose Myth is it Anyway? Coyote in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Simon J. Ortiz -
Chapter 12 Aging, Anxious and Apocalyptic: Baseball's Myths for the Millennium -
Chapter 13 Finding a Voice, Telling a Story: Constructing Communal Identity in Contemporary American Women's Writing - Notes on Contributors
- Index
