Lord Byron and Mythology

ISBN-13: 9781433175107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 162 str.

Naji B. Oueijan

Opis

This book offers a detailed study of Byron's Mythology. Ever since his childhood and adolescence and before he became a legendary poet, George Gordon Byron felt the sense of escaping from the anxieties of his traumatic present to the glorious worlds of Eastern History and Mythology.

Spis treści

Peter Graham: Foreword - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Mythology Ancient and Modern - Formation of the Byron Myth - Romanticism and Myth-Making - Lord Byron's Mobility and Myth-Making - Lord Byron's Mapping of Eastern Mythology - Greek Mythology - Persian and Arabian Mythology - Nature and Mythology: The Politics of Man and Nature - Antiquity and Mythology - Eroticism and Mythology - Madness and Mythology - The Mythical Voice - Conclusion - References - Index.

O autorze

Naji B. Oueijan, a graduate of Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA, is Full Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, Lebanon. He is Joint President of the International Association of Byron Societies (IABS) and member of several national and international literary societies. Professor Oueijan published in international scholarly journals and periodicals on Orientalism, Byronism, Lebanese-American writers, and cross-cultural themes. He edited, translated, and authored thirteen books, four of which are on Lord Byron and Orientalism.