What It Means: Myth, Symbol, and Archetype in the Third Millennium, Vol. 1 - Couverture souple

Rome, Eva

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1713312794 ISBN 13 : 9781713312796

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

What It Means (WHIM) is a collection of semiserious semiotic essays that examines how myth, symbol, and archetype manifest in everyday American life in the early third millennium. WHIM was written for readers interested in cultural studies, mythology, language, human behavior, philosophy, and anthropology, and is also intended to be a time capsule text for future readers curious about life back in the CE 2,000s. From the not-too-distant future to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond, What It Means will be a source for readers to gain insights into, what will likely seem to them, the peculiarities of an earlier time. Included in the WHIM collection are essays on topics such as “The Roller Coaster Ride as Aristotelian Narrative,” “Indoor Skydiving and Dreams of Flying,” “Fidget Spinners,” “Car Wash as Surrogate Purification Ritual,” and “Acoustic Weapons.” What It Means shows that ancient stories, archetypes, symbols, and ideas can all be found in the contemporary, providing (at least a few of) the answers to our sometimes confusing, sometimes chaotic existence. Some of the essays are pure parody; some include whimsical content, and some are a blend of fact and fiction. Some emulate the magical thinking—preposterous inferences based on speculation and personal bias—that appears occasionally in anthropological scholarship. WHIM links to French semiological thought in general and to Roland Barthes in particular. Barthes famously analyzed popular post–World War II consumer and entertainment culture, and What It Means aspires to be the early third millennium’s answer to his insightful and funny work Mythologies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1713312794
• ISBN 13: 9781713312796
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 171
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