A Short History of Myth. By Karen Armstrong. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2005. 159 pp
As advertised on its jacket flap, this book heads its press' ‘series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world,’ including Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, and others of renown. The present volume shares its titular formulation as A … History with three of Armstrong&#...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 207-209 |
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| Summary: | As advertised on its jacket flap, this book heads its press' ‘series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world,’ including Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, and others of renown. The present volume shares its titular formulation as A … History with three of Armstrong's numerous and popular earlier volumes: A History of God: The 4000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (1993); A History of Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996) and Islam: A Short History (2000). The title A Short History of Myth, like A History of God, is provocatively oxymoronic. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl018 |