Foundation stories and myths in the Western cultural imagination.
PUBordeaux| N° d'inventaire | 12477 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 370 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Bordeaux, 2009 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782867815492 |
This work is an illustration of the relationships established between history, as it can be reconstructed in its plausibility, and the imaginary of history transposed into writing and literature in an incessant process of mythification. The metamorphosis of facts, under the pressure of the imagination, creates a mythology with strong emotional value, which takes precedence over reality. Civil and religious communities thus invent a fabulous history, which enters into the constitution of their identity, and is inserted into their literature, to possibly justify their position in the present day, their ambition in the future, or to establish the bases of a literary exploitation. Eleven chapters refer to the mythological heritage of the West, through Antiquity, Christianity, national legends and symbols with a fertile literary destiny. Claude-Gilbert Dubois, professor emeritus at the Michel de Montaigne University (Bordeaux-3) created the Multidisciplinary Laboratory for Research on the Imaginary Applied to Literature (LAPRIL) and the journal Eidôlon there in 1976. He directed the Letters and Arts courses there (from 1976 to 1993). He is the author of around twenty books, including Mythologies of the West (Paris, Ellipses, 2007).
This work is an illustration of the relationships established between history, as it can be reconstructed in its plausibility, and the imaginary of history transposed into writing and literature in an incessant process of mythification. The metamorphosis of facts, under the pressure of the imagination, creates a mythology with strong emotional value, which takes precedence over reality. Civil and religious communities thus invent a fabulous history, which enters into the constitution of their identity, and is inserted into their literature, to possibly justify their position in the present day, their ambition in the future, or to establish the bases of a literary exploitation. Eleven chapters refer to the mythological heritage of the West, through Antiquity, Christianity, national legends and symbols with a fertile literary destiny. Claude-Gilbert Dubois, professor emeritus at the Michel de Montaigne University (Bordeaux-3) created the Multidisciplinary Laboratory for Research on the Imaginary Applied to Literature (LAPRIL) and the journal Eidôlon there in 1976. He directed the Letters and Arts courses there (from 1976 to 1993). He is the author of around twenty books, including Mythologies of the West (Paris, Ellipses, 2007).