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Art and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeia: Literatures, Myths and Revisionism Volume One
JCLA: Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, Cuttack, Orissa , 2020
It is a fact that mythopoeia has always been a steady proponent in the construct of any socio-cultural order. In the contemporary times, owing to the rise of cultural studies, a steady interest towards Revisionist literary texts has also surfaced. The association of Indian culture and values with a plethora of mythological narratives have made several scholars curious because they do offer an array of new perspectives of understanding the art, aesthetics and also the politics of myths within a larger social, religious and cultural context. Similarly, by exploring the trope of myth, it has been possible to look at the cultures of other countries as well. This anthology offers new readings of classical myths across continents and cultures. The anthologized essays have collectively explored the various trends of Revisionist literature. Sincere attempts have also been made to highlight the ways in which re-readings of select literary works can admirably transform set notions and ideas of human existence.
Art and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeia Volume Two contents
Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute New Delhi | London | New York, 2020
Human culture has always weaved myths around its pattern of existence for multiple purposes. The interplay of religion and social practices have found their own space within the sphere of mythology. It is possible to read mythical texts to probe into the greater picture of human civilization. The contribution of myths towards the shaping of human beliefs, behavioural patterns are evident and assessing them often reveals a plethora of cultural histories unexplored and therefore unacknowledged before. The contribution of mythopoeia towards the construct of human socio-cultural identity has been largely accepted. Modern academia has thus taken a strong interest in revisionist literature to understand the hitherto unknown nuances of human civilization. In the edited anthology, Art and Aesthetics of Modern Mythopoeia: Literatures, Myths and Revisionism (Vol-II), like the first volume, an attempt has been made to anthologize the works of a large number of authors who have talked about pertinent issues in the context of myth-making, the latent politics of mythopoeia and has taken into account several underexplored texts that are rich in mythical content. This volume offers a wide range of critical studies involving classical as well as modern myths around the globe.
Myth as the Phenomenon of Culture.pdf
National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts Herald, 2018
This paper aims at exploring myth as a phenomenon of culture. The authors have used anthropological integrative approach, semiotic method of representing myth as a language of culture, as well as phenomenological method. Myths provide meaning and purpose to all elements of culture. Myth underlies cultural reality – it is a core of culture. If we imagine culture as an onion comprised of different layers (the “onion” model of culture), than myth is the center of it – it is a core beyond articulation. It generates our beliefs and assumptions that are rarely explicated, however there beliefs and assumptions shape both the structure of personality and culture. They are taken for granted, but support any culture. They manifest themselves in an explicit form in values, purposes, goals, strategies, philosophies, which motivate us and shape our reality. Mythology is one of the ways to comprehend and interpret the world around us. Its basic concepts are the “world” and “human”. Through the lens of these concepts, people realized their destiny in the world and formed life attitudes during the early stages of human development. Giving place to philosophy and science, mythology has not lost its important place in human history. Mythological narratives were borrowed by many religions. In recent decades, representatives of literature and art have intentionally used myths to express their ideas. They have not only rethought ancient myths, but have created new mythological symbols. Nowadays, an interest in myths and mythologies has dramatically increased, and it is not by chance. The famous researchers of the primitive cultures and mythologies as the ways of mastering and interpreting the world have demonstrated the creative power and heuristic potential of myths that will be manifested in the future.
Amnayiki, 2023
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in her text comes up with an enchanting tale of a woman's prowess in The Forest of Enchantments. The story is a gripping tale of contemporary battle of wills that has been portrayed from the perspective of an ancient story from the lens of Sita. It has been beautifully quoted as a story "By Sita, of Sita and for the Sitas of the world." The tone of modern myth-making naturally runs deep throughout the storyline, as it is connected to the ancient mythological tale of Ramayana in more than one way. Undertaking the approach of a consistent review of the story and the various aspects associated with the story, the study here focuses on an understanding of the mechanism that has been used by the author to come up with a compelling and gripping tale that is based on mythological lines. Therefore, the aspect of myth-making is being considered in this case to ensure that an appropriate study in this domain is generated. The study here is to make use of secondary data from various relevant sources and especially critiques of the study to come up with a robust pool of information, which is to be further employed to generate a comprehensive review and analysis using the critical comparative analysis technique. An appropriate understanding of the plot along with key aspects of the story to show the elements of myths that have been employed is to be generated here. Besides, the study has also ensured that appropriate understanding of the critical literary elements that have helped in ensuring that the study can be closely linked to a myth has also been highlighted here. The overall process of making a myth in modern times from the perspective of a modern literary work has been considered here. The study has revealed that modern myth-making has developed into a specific genre that can be extremely crucial and appealing to the audiences.
Indian Perspectives of Myths – Dissolving Tradition & Modernity
2018
Why not Gaatha as the Indian Word for Western idea of Myth? It represents a lived ecosystem. Secondly, in India there is no clash between Tradition & Modernity/Contemporary since the idea of Indian myth is a concept out of time. And it is time since a remarkable manifestation of the New Indian cultural behavior marks the post-independence Indians related to reassessing their identity. About seven decades of independence, with about three generation born and living in the post-independence period, there a number of trends - a quest has emerged to question concepts that make up the various aspects of the cultural idea of India, as much as about creating an exotica of the past to make it reemerge and be a part of the present identity, and there are also efforts to project experimentation to reinvent the past for the present in different ways.
Myths Of India: Images of India in a Mythological framework
The strands of history are long, varied and exist in dimensions resembling intertwined threads from many, many nails in a wall – from one focal point to another, these threads stretch, intertwine and perhaps return and repeat patterns, and are lost into the weaving of another, creating an inventive tapestry of fact, fiction, myth and lore. Some of it is textualized, broken down, regurgitated and discarded – we love skinning these threads. Of particular interest to this paper are the notions of myth and history. The discourse on mythology is clustered around the emergence of academia as an institution, as we learned to categorize the need or the choice to make myth, and align it with historical narrative. Discourses on civilizations and their numerous characteristics are bound to be infused with this very narrative, as theorists continually refer to the “Unconscious” nature of mythmaking – and mythographers are often preoccupied with questions pertaining to the validity of myth, and using myth as a source for validating narrative, or to simply explore the need to create such myths. This paper will examine the Indian Subcontinent from antiquity and after, particularly through the mythologist’s lens – effectively, studying the Images of India from a mythological perspective. Since the Images of India are myriad and fluxing, we will shortlist two curious Images subjected to extensive mythologization: one, the origin myths of India through Greco-Roman eyes, and second, a longstanding, often convoluted narrative pertinent to the exotic, marvelous animals found in India. We will attempt to take these two images as underlined in the narratives of authors ranging from Ctesias to Vasco de Gama, and attempt to deconstruct them via mythological theory. For theory, we utilize some famous names and their works in the field – Claude Levi Strauss, Mircea Eliade, Max Mueller, Vladimar Propp, Malinowski, Roland Barthes and some others for reference. To underline the purpose of this paper, Cohen explains the very nature of such a discourse – “A theory of myth should explain something about the phenomenon”, and clearly, we hope to do the same – whether it is determining the function of such mythmaking, or its implications, in order to glean why the Images of India were the way they were, especially in the two areas this paper restricts itself to. This paper will not strive to reduce itself into a theoretical ballast, but will rather focus on the application of theory on these Images.
Introduction: Mythmaking and Storytelling
Mythmaking across Boundaries, 2016
This volume explores the dynamics of myths throughout time and space, along with the mythmaking processes in various cultures, literatures and languages, in a wide range of fields, ranging from cultural studies to the history of art. The papers brought together here are motivated by two basic questions: How are myths made in diverse cultures and literatures? And, do all different cultures have different myths to be told in their artistic pursuits? To examine these questions, the book offers a wide array of articles by contributors from various cultures which focus on theory, history, space/place, philosophy, literature, language, gender, and storytelling. Mythmaking across Boundaries not only brings together classical myths, but also contemporary constructions and reconstructions through different cultural perspectives by transcending boundaries. Using a wide spectrum of perspectives, this volume, instead of emphasising the different modes of the mythmaking process, connects numerous perceptions of mythmaking and investigates diversities among cultures, languages and literatures, viewing them as a unified whole. As the essays reflect on both academic and popular texts, the book will be useful to scholars and students, as well as the general reader.
Myths in Art
The ubiquitous depictions of ancient myths in Renaissance art are viewed as expressions of classical revival, demonstrating the importance of the Greek and Roman legacy in the intellectual and artistic culture of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. While this is basically true, some of the misconceptions inherent in this broad generalization will be demonstrated in this study. Without delving into broader aspects of skepticism regarding the validity of the "Renaissance myth", I will focus on essential questions of tradition and innovation regarding myths in Renaissance art. In order to understand the orientation, function or aim of the myth in Renaissance art, it is imperative to consider the re-adaption of literary and artistic precedents that accumulated over centuries, bearing conservative, conflicting or interweaving interpretations. Multifarious precedents were part of the artistic and literary legacy