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The World of Myth: An Anthology
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David Adams Leeming (Editor)
Approaches to mythology usually catalogue the least important aspect of the subject - the endless names, places, stories - as if they had no significant context beyond the particular cultures in which they emerged. "The World of Myth" provides a more universal context by examining the relevance of the myths of the ancients. The collection is ...
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Mythology, the Voyage of the Hero
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This book offers an approach to the subject of mythology by stressing the universal rather than national themes. It covers a wide array of narrative texts from the Bible to English literature to interpretations by Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung and others, which illustrate the stages of the universal hero. The arrangement of texts by themes such as ...
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Myths, Legends, and Folktales of America: An Anthology
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David Adams Leeming, Jake Page
This marvellous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States--from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and ...
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A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
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David Adams Leeming
This is an A-Z dictionary of mythologies of the Asian continent. Major characters, places and events of Asian mythology are included, as well as certain relevant themes and cultural traditions.
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The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Reissued Edition
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David Adams Leeming, James A Baldwin, Derrick A Bell (Adapted by)
This edition of a classic work by one of America's premier writers offers a new Foreword by Derrick Bell (with Janet Dewart Bell) to the 1995 paperback edition, and is as meaningful today as it was when it was first published in 1985. In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of ...
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From Olympus to Camelot: The World of European Mythology
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David Adams Leeming
From stories suggested by the great cave paintings to the experiments by modern scientists, this is a sweeping and innovative look at the mythology of Europe. 21 illustrations.
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Jealous Gods and Chosen People: The Mythology of the Middle East
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David Leeming
Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization. Leeming begins with a brief, engaging history of the Middle East, spanning Neolithic cultures, the Bronze Age and ...
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James Baldwin: A Biography
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David Adams Leeming
Authorized by Baldwin before his death in 1987, this biography is written by his former assistant (from 1964-1967), David Leeming - they met in Turkey in 1962. During those years he was particularly involved in Baldwin's civil rights activities. Leeming has been given exclusive access to the Baldwin family and documents pertaining to the writer's ...
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Myth: A Biography of Belief
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David Adams Leeming
In the spirit of Joseph Campbell and C. G. Jung, David Leeming examines how myths have been transformed from ancient times to modern day, and maintains that their archetypal significance for understanding the world is as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.
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Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine
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David Adams Leeming, Jake Page
An old woman lives still among the broken slopes of the mountains in the land of the Tarahumara Indians. No one knows exactly where. She is sometimes seen standing along the highway near El Paso, hauling wood near Oaxaca, or even hitching a ride on a semi rig. She is the bone woman, the gatherer, La Loba. She collects bones, especially those of ...
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God: Myths of the Male Divine
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David Adams Leeming, Jake Page
Gods is a "biography" of the god archetype from Palaeolithic times to the present. As a sequel to Goddess, this collection speaks to myth and gender issues in relation to the use of the male as a metaphor for the great mystery of existence. The authors retell myths from North and South America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, tracing ...
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Stephen Spender: A Life in Modernism
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David Adams Leeming
A life of Stephen Spender (1909-1995) that stresses his gift for friendship with great writers, using Spenders diaries and letters as its primary sources.
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The Mythology of Native North America
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David Adams Leeming, Jake Page
"Although (the authors) recognize the distinctions among various tribes, they argue that American Indians had a collective mythological tradition that also fits into a larger human tradition, including Greek and African mythology."--"American Archaeology."
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Gods, Heroes, & Kings: The Battle for Mythic Britain
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Christopher R Fee, David A Leeming
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned ...
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God
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David Adams Leeming, Jake Page
He has been a trickster, a shaman, a divine child; he has been a sacrificial victim, a consort of the earth goddess, a warrior, a sky king; and the creator, a distant and impersonal immensity. He is the male divine, seen in the many gods of myth, and his life story is told here in this graceful and illuminating account by David Leeming and Jake ...
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A Dictionary of Creation Myths
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David Adams Leeming, Margaret Adams Leeming
From cosmic eggs and the Garden of Eden to the Spider Woman and the Gaia Principle, from myths of the Apocalypse and the great world religions to myths of love, re-birth, and science, this guide illuminates the phenomenon of creation in all aspects of the human experience. 32 illustrations.
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Mythology
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Mythology: The Voyage of the Hero, Third Edition
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David Adams Leeming
This book offers an approach to the subject of mythology by stressing the universal rather than national themes. It covers a wide array of narrative texts from the Bible to English literature to interpretations by Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung and others, which illustrate the stages of the universal hero. The arrangement of texts by themes such as ...
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The World of Myth
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David Adams Leeming
This study of the myths of different cultures is concerned with finding the relevance of ancient stories and placing them in a cultural context. Although a predominant number of the myths examined are Greek and Roman, there are also myths from Egypt, Scandinavia, India, Africa and America.
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Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney
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David Adams Leeming
A biography of African-American painter Beauford Delaney (1901-1979), who is known for his friendship with, and encouragement of, the young James Baldwin. David Leeming writes about Delaney's lifelong struggle with alcoholism and issues surrounding his sexuality, as well as Beauford's friendship with many artists and writers such as Countee Cullen ...
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Flights: Readings in Magic, Mysticism, Fantasy, and Myth
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David Adams Leeming
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Stephen Spender : a lifetime in modernism
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Although often embroiled in contorversy and public debate, Stephen Spender's all consuming passion was literature. At Oxford he became friendly with Cecil Day Lewis, Louis McNeice, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood and with these writers his name will always be associated. This is a serious literary biography which quotes extensively from ...
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Re-Viewing James Baldwin
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Quentin Miller, D Quentin Miller (Editor), David Adams Leeming (Foreword by)
This new collection of essays presents a critical reappraisal of James Baldwin's work, looking beyond the commercial and critical success of some of Baldwin's early writings such as "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and "Notes of a Native Son". Focusing on Baldwin's critically undervalued early works and the virtually neglected later ones, the ...
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Children's Dict. of Mythology
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David Adams Leeming (Editor)
A dictionary of terms, names, and places in the mythology of various cultures around the world.
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Encyclopedia of Allegorical Literature
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David Adams Leeming, Kathleen Morgan Drowne
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