ISBN:
0253339960
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 386 p)
,
25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Modern Construction of Myth
DDC:
398.2/09/03
Keywords:
Myth History
;
Myth ; History
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"... one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von Hendy is writing not to expose the concept of myth but simply to show the array of ways in which it has been used from time to time and from place to place. A superb work." -- Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster, author of Theorizing about MythAndrew Von Hendy offers an
Description / Table of Contents:
THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF MYTH; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - From Fable to Myth; Chapter 2 - The Invention of Myth; Chapter 3 - The Struggle between Myth and SuspicionŽ; Chapter 4 - Myth as an Aspect of PrimitiveŽ Religion; Chapter 5 - The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of Myth; Chapter 6 - The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth; Chapter 7 - Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury I: Myth as Mode of Thought and Language; Chapter 8 - Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury II: Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western Life
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 - Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology I: Malinowski, Boas, and Their Spheres of InfluenceChapter 10 - Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology II: From Lévi-Strauss to Withdrawal from Grand Theory; Chapter 11 - No Two-Headed Greeks: The Folkloristic Consensus in Classical Studies; Chapter 12 - Myth and Ideology; Chapter 13 - Myth as Necessary Fiction; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-378) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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