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Women, Myth, and the Feminine Principle focuses on the role played by women in specific religious texts, epic poems, theater pieces, and tales narrating sacred events in which Deities and supernatural or extraordinary beings move through their difficult celestial and earthly trajectories. This is a companion volume to Bettina L. Knapp's Women in Myth and it includes chapters dedicated to the study of two works that have never been broached bef...

Bettina Knapp adds a new spin on the study of gambling as she explores both sides of the coin--the rush and thrill of risk taking versus the depression and defeat of losing. In a unique Jungian approach, Knapp probes the universal and eternal mysteries that lady luck herself offers to humanity's never-ending quest to defy destiny. While games of chance and of skill have held universal appeal throughout the ages, here Knapp adds a new dimension...

The extraordinary actor-director-writer who developed his talent for self-torture into art to become one of the most vital creative forces of the century.

Acquainting readers with certain literary as well as intellectual and psychological aspects of Jewish thought, life, and religious experience, the six legends and tales in Manna and Mystery are rich in the Jewish themes of mystical love, endurance, thirst for learning, and persecution. Bettina Knapp's essays in Manna and Mystery: A Jungian Approach to Hebrew Myth and Legend open the modern consciousness to their ancient insights and wisdom, wh...

Stressing Voltaire's life and work as an individual, Bettina L. Knapp paints a vivid picture of Voltaire as a "freedom fighter" and a "Promethean." She presents a discussion of the purely philosophical texts, and questions of free will, religion, and faith. She shows how Voltaire's admiration for the English and their form of government influenced his later work.

Acquainting readers with certain literary as well as intellectual and psychological aspects of Jewish thought, life, and religious experience, the six legends and tales in Manna and Mystery are rich in the Jewish themes of mystical love, endurance, thirst for learning, and persecution. Bettina Knapp's essays in Manna and Mystery: A Jungian Approach to Hebrew Myth and Legend open the modern consciousness to their ancient insights and wisdom, wh...

Bettina L. Knapp explores the universal and eternal nature of fourteen French fairy tales, including the medieval Romance of Melusine, Charles Perrault's seventeenth-century versions of Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard, and Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast. She demonstrates the relevance of these fairy tales for modern readers, both for the psychological problems they address and for the positive resolutions they offer. Through...

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Bettina Knapp adds a new spin on the study of gambling as she explores both sides of the coin -- the rush and thrill of risk taking versus the depression and defeat of losing. In a unique Jungian approach, Knapp probes the universal and eternal mysteries that lady luck herself offers to humanity's never-ending quest to defy destiny.While games of chance and of skill have held universal appeal throughout the ages, here Knapp adds a new dimensio...

One lasting effect of France's May 1968 antiestablishment movement has been the reevaluation of the philosophical, psychological, and aesthetic aspects of theater. In the 1950s and 1960s the plays of Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, and Eugene Ionesco had abolished traditional theatrical forms, as had the existentialist theater of Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. French playwrights, bursting with new ideas as well as with confidenc...

Offers an analysis of fourteen French fairy tales, from the medieval Romance of Mélusine to Jean Cocteau's film version of Beauty and the Beast, exploring their universal and eternal nature as well as their relevance to modern readers.

In Women in Myth, Bettina L. Knapp explores the role played by women in ancient societies through analysis of specific myths from nine different lands. The author probes issues as to how figures such as Isis, Tiamat, Dido, Camilla, Deborah, Iphigenia, Salome, Sita, Amaterasu, Nu-Kwa, and others - some of whom were goddesses - fared. She discusses their abilities and their outlooks, whether their views were gender oriented or androgynous, wheth...

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Altogether, the work is a delight, offering an unusual, provocativeview on the disparate texts, with the added pleasure of lucid graceful prose."-- Journal of Modern LiteratureBettina Knapp probes the nature, meaning, and use of the architectural metaphors and archetypes that pervade allliterature.

Women, Myth, and the Feminine Principle focuses on the role played by the feminine principle in specific religious texts, epic poems, theater pieces, and tales narrating sacred events in which Deities and supernatural or extraordinary beings move through their difficult celestial and earthly trajectories.This is a companion volume to Bettina L. Knapp's Women in Myth and it includes chapters dedicated to the study of two works that have never b...

In 'Women in Myth, ' Bettina L. Knapp explores the role played by women in ancient societies through analysis of specific myths from nine different lands. The author probes issues as to how figures such as Isis, Tiamat, Dido, Camilla, Deborah, Iphigenia, Salome, Sita, Amaterasu, Nu-Kwa, and others--some of whom were goddesses--fared.