Leon Burnett, PhD, is Reader in Literature and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex. He has edited F. M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881): A Centenary Collection (1981) and Word in Time: Poetry, Narrative, Translation (1997). From 1992 to 2000 he edited New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies.
At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth... (more)