Modern day myths in Neil Gaiman's American Gods
This thesis will focus on the function of multi-mythology in contemporary literature especially the fantasy genre. In particular, this thesis analyses American Gods by Neil Gaiman by drawing upon Claude Lévi-Strauss' and Vladmir Propp's structuralist ideas and to see how the original myths...
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| author | Mohamed Roslan, Syed Mikhail Noor, Rohimmi Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur |
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| description | This thesis will focus on the function of multi-mythology in contemporary literature especially the fantasy genre. In particular, this thesis analyses American Gods by Neil Gaiman by drawing upon Claude Lévi-Strauss' and Vladmir Propp's structuralist ideas and to see how the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. In particular, I will argue that American Gods is a demonstration of Joseph Campbell’s theory of the monomyth from the The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The findings of this study may encourage future researchers into analysing other texts and finding similar themes to fill in the gaps of existing knowledge in mythology. |
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| spelling | upm.eprints-383152020-05-04T16:16:09Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38315/ Modern day myths in Neil Gaiman's American Gods Mohamed Roslan, Syed Mikhail Noor, Rohimmi Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur This thesis will focus on the function of multi-mythology in contemporary literature especially the fantasy genre. In particular, this thesis analyses American Gods by Neil Gaiman by drawing upon Claude Lévi-Strauss' and Vladmir Propp's structuralist ideas and to see how the original myths were substituted, modulated or transfigured to be presented as metamyth or myth transformed. In particular, I will argue that American Gods is a demonstration of Joseph Campbell’s theory of the monomyth from the The Hero with a Thousand Faces. The findings of this study may encourage future researchers into analysing other texts and finding similar themes to fill in the gaps of existing knowledge in mythology. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38315/1/38315.pdf Mohamed Roslan, Syed Mikhail and Noor, Rohimmi and Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur (2020) Modern day myths in Neil Gaiman's American Gods. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 10 (3). pp. 370-385. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/papers/detail/IJARBSS/7056 10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i3/7056 |
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