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‘Peter Carey’s engagement with myth is complex. It applies to h is writings in several of its meanings and is, unsurprisingly, one of the most oft-mentioned critical concepts in Carey criticism. There is, in fact, hardly an essay or a review article that fails to mention the word ‘myth’ or one of its lexical derivatives.’ (p. 39)
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Epigraph: And what is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history? - Joseph Conrad
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. - Octavio Paz
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After the Grand Narratives : From History to Mythistory

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