Theories of myth, mythical motifs in comparison, visual myths, national myth receptions, and myth and science and the science of myth are explored in 19 essays. Nine of them are in English, and
discuss theorizing about myth in Britain and Germany from 19th-century to the 20th, the poetry and politics of corruption in Yeats and Lawrence, myths of conspiracy and infiltration from
Dickens to Thomas Mann, the end of the world and the beginning of aesthetics in Hogarth and Jean Paul, Blake's and Lavater's search for divine likeness, Max Ernst and Leonore with myths of
Anglo-German surrealism, the dialectic of modernity in English and German literary thought around 1800, mythical Aryan masculinity and British travel writing about Germany during the 1930s, and
rationality in myth and science. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
