Contributions

  • University of the Philippines Press - Contributor

Publication

2016 - University of the Philippines Press, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

Language

English

Word Count

90,750 words, Guess

Page Count

363 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPR9550.9.G34 Z68 2016

Description

"Other than just provide an argument for the value of the reactive and the improvised, the pieces in this book aspire to perform something else, something quite specific: as the title piece announces, mythology and writing are intimately intertwined things, so much so that the former is really the loftiest that the latter can ever wish to become. In other words, all fiction finally aspires to turn into myth, for myth is nothing if not narration wielding powerful and transfigurative magic over the communal psyche that invents it, providing not so much explanations as experiences of its innermost depths, its uppermost visions, its intuition of the transcendental, without which it would be quite impossible for any of us to grieve, to love, and be fully a person in this world."--Page 4 of cover.

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