Madness at the gates of the city : the myth of American innocence

Author

Barry Spector

Call Number

• 973 S7418 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

Berkeley, Calif. : Regent Press, 2010.

Physical Description

520 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

• Foreword / by Robert A. Johnson
• Part 1: The myth of Dionysus. The creative imagination ; Who is Dionysus? ; Tragedy, Euripides and the Bacchae ; The return of the repressed ; Initiation ; The killing of the children
• Part 2: The myth of American innocence. Red, white and black ; Americanism and fear of the other ; The hero ; Five styles of "poor quality Dionysus"
• Part 3: Waking from the American dream. All shook up : the white Dionysus ; Into the mystery.