DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY Publications
riting myth, mythic writing:
plotting your personal story
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
fisher king press, 2012
Myths help us to keep in touch with inward forces. They tell us of powers of psyche to be recognized and integrated into our lives, powers common to the human spirit from the beginning. —Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By
One effective way of accessing some of the elements of our personal myth is through remembering and questioning by means of writing in cursive. To even pose a question is to begin a quest. The narratives that we have been and continue to plot forward contain the patterns and purposes of our personal myth, which is partly conscious and often deeply unconscious. Riting Myth offers dozens of meditative prompts, along with questions to guide us down and into that area of our narrative that can uncover parts of our personal myth. It also contains over 135 additional readings that can further our discovery process. We will, in conjunction with Joseph Campbell’s insights into the reality of mythic patterns, use many of these prompts to access discovery and recovery of our mythic meaning to live a more coherent life.
Harvesting Darkness:
ESSAYS ON LITERATURE, MYTH, FILM, AND CULTURE
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
IUNIVERSE, 2006
With a Foreword by literary critic Louise Cowan, this volume is divided into two sections: 18 chapters on a vast array of books and films that have a mythic component in each of its core discussions. These are followed by 8 chapters of personal essays in which the author highlights a series of cultural events that are read mythically.
A LIMBO OF SHARDS:
ESSAYS ON MEMORY, MYTH, AND METAPHOR
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
IUNIIVERSE, 2007
With a Foreword by Dr. Peter C. Phan, Distinguished Professor of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University, this volume is divided into three large clusters of essays: I. Memory, which includes ten essays on both poetry and the place of the remembered; II. Myth, which includes ten essays from varied points of view on the nature and function of myth; and III. Metaphor, which includes nine essays on the nature of figural language in several cultural contexts.
CREASES IN CULTURE:
ESSAYS TOWARD A POETICS OF DEPTH
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
FISHER KING PRESS, 2014
With a Foreword by depth psychologist and therapist Lyn Cowan, this volume consists of two sections: Section One: Formal Essays, includes five meditations on the connections between poetry and myth as well as the nature of psychic energy; Section II: Cultural Essays, reflects on the nature of motorcycles as mythic transport vehicles, humanities education and the role of education in literary classics.
the way of myth: stories’ subtle wisdom
DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY
mandorla books 2021
In my 30th published volume, The Way of Myth: Stories’ Subtle Wisdom, I reach back in “Part I: Mining the Myths Anew,” to some earlier essays on classic films and works of literature. I also include extended meditations on the thought of mythologist Joseph Campbell, on creativity’s hungers, on beliefs as mythic constructs, and on the joys of painting. Many of the essays also explore the act of reading, the importance of stories as it relates to one’s personal myth. In “Part II: The Social Fabric of Stories,” I include a series of 19 short op-ed essays on a range of topics: the classroom as sacred space, uncertainty, the fact of myth, compassion, moral injury, peace, the gifts of conversation, gall-bladder surgery, the pan-demic and the poetics of myth, among others. Also present in this section are reflections on several of Joseph Campbell’s volumes. My areas of interest are trans-disciplinary, analogical and depth-psychological, all gathering around the mystery of myths themselves. These essays stretch out over many years of writing. Now, in this volume they are gathered so they can speak and engage one another to reveal the subtle wisdom of stories.
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