{"id":9379,"date":"2023-01-05T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T20:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=9379"},"modified":"2023-01-05T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T21:06:32","slug":"369a-history-of-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/369a-history-of-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"369A: History of Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p>Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read a book of literary theory in about 2003, but I believe it was older than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book was about the connection between mystery \/ detective novels and ancient religious mysteries. As I recall, it had individual chapters on the Eleusinian mysteries, the Cybele and Attis myth, and other mythologies &#8212; focused on ancient religions prioritized by Western perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is not <em>The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena, and Aphrodite in Women\u2019s Detective Fiction, <\/em>but it would be that kind of thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it also contained some more common ideas about mysteries, such as that they exist to resolve anxiety about societal instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay. I read a book of literary theory in about 2003, but I believe it was older than that. The book was about the connection between mystery \/ detective novels and ancient religious mysteries. As I recall, it had individual chapters on the Eleusinian mysteries, the Cybele and Attis myth, and other mythologies &#8212; focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,19],"tags":[214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9381,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9379\/revisions\/9381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}