Table of Contents

Critical Approaches; Frye: The Road of Excess; Knights: King Lear as Metaphor; Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard; Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality; Applications; The Writer and His Method; Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov; Nothnagle: Myth in the Poetic Creation of Agrippa D'Aubigne; Campbell: The Transformation of Biblical Myth: MacLeish's Use of the Adam and Job Stories; Hiller: The Symbolism of Gestus in Brecht's Drama; Sr. Joselyn: Animal Imagery in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction; The Work Examined--Archetypes and Interpretations; LaGuardia: Chastity, Regeneration, and World Order in All's Well that Ends Well; Jones: Immortality in Two of Milton's Elegies; Dougherty: Of Ruskin's Gardens; Kern: Myth and Symbol in Criticism of Faulkner's "The Bear"; Welliver: The De Vulgari Eloquentia and Dante's Quasi After-Life; Vickery: The Golden Bough: Impact and Archetype