Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity Alan C Dessen

Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity Alan C DessenSymbols and Myth Making in Modernity unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever present symbols erupt in popular culture today and what work they do in transforming self and society.

This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories

O'Casey and Behan

and its crucial role in defining and challenging British national identity

and of film as memory

blurring lines that are often perceived to be sacrosanct

are here introduced in a new light

This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period

Drawing on extensive cross-national research

consumption and exchange

Resetting the Stage argues that public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart

This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective

Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema