The Golden Horns: Mythic Imagination and the Nordic PastUniversity of Georgia Press, 1977 - 226 páginas As an introduction to modern myth, "The Golden Horns" masterfully encompasses a wide circle of historical and literary materials. John Greenway first establishes the theoretical base of his discussion by examining the nature of time in Norse mythic consciousness. After suggesting several ways in which the mythic apprehension of reality conditioned medieval Icelandic narrative, he then elaborates on the dialectical relationship between myth and reason. Maintaining that myth is neither true nor false but always either expressive or not, the author then traces the origin, rise, and fall of two great modern myths of northern birth: seventeenth century Swedish Gothicism and the Ossianic craze of the eighteenth century--both of which illustrate the singular tension in the modern mind between mythic imperatives and the impulse to de-mythologize. Finally, "The Golden Horns" traces the romantic belief in a "new mythology" which synthesizes myth and reason from its early acceptance through its eventual repudiation. In his conclusions about the state of myth in the modern world, Greenway postulates that we have inherited the romantic respect for myth as truth but lack the romantic faith in transcendence necessary to establish myth's reality. Consequently, we express our mythic consciousness of who we are in quasi-scientific language, consciously manipulating mythic symbols for social control. |
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... tion of this ontology is accomplished through the narrative nature of mythic time , in that reality is described in terms of its genesis . In Norse myth even the gods are not immune from the basically inimical nature of creation , since ...
... tion by a historical Odin from Asia . 26 With an empirically satisfactory explanation of barbaric imagery established , some critics ( though not many ) elaborated the explanation of Nordic poetry into its consequences of esthetic ...
... tion , a " new mythology . " History , to Schlegel , is a process of ever- increasing self - consciousness , culminating with the ideas of Fichte . The drama of historical process will , says Schlegel , produce the oppo- site of ...
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CONTENTS | 1 |
Norse Myth as Symbol and Paradigm | 24 |
Reason Symbol and Conversion | 42 |
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