San Antonio College Library

This edition of the well-known text on the connection between mythology and storytelling contains a revised chapter on the Star Wars series, new illustrations and diagrams, and new chapters (presented in the appendices) on life force operating in stories, the mechanism of polarity in storytelling, the wisdom of the body, catharsis, and other concepts. The book is meant for all types of writers and outlines guidelines for plot and character development,...

"Jack Kerouac and the Literary Imagination explores Kerouac's fiction, poetry, religious writing, private journals, and correspondence as literary texts revealing his aesthetic vision for American belle letters."--Jacket.

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.

"When Nietzsche called for the establishment of a metaphysical theater capable of healing the existential problems of his time, he helped provoke a revolution in Western theater. Playwrights were inspired to write plays about the audience, about its problems, hopes and fears. Yeats, Artaud, Brecht, Genet, Ionesco and other playwrights presented the abstract forces of modern society in a form which permits the spectator to contemplate them and find...