Screen LibraryThe Bloomsbury reader in the study of myth /
"What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the edito...
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Bloomsbury Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory of myth. Key features include: a general introduction to the reader that outlines a comparative and interpretative framework; an introduction contextualizing each part and sub-section; an introduction to each reading by the editors; a companion website that provides discussion questions and further reading suggestions, including primary sources. From functionalism to feminism, nationalism to globalization, and psychoanalysis to spatial analysis, this reader covers the classic and contemporary theories and approaches needed to understand what myth is, why myths exist, what they do, and what the future holds for them."--Publisher's description. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781350082250 (paperback) : 1350082252 (paperback) 9781350082243 (hardcover) 1350082244 (hardcover) 9781350082267 (ePDF) 1350082260 (ePDF) 9781350082274 (eBook) 1350082279 (eBook) |
| Index Number: | BL312 |
| CLC: | B932 |
| Call Number: | B932/B655 |
| Contents: |
A two-dimensional scheme for the classification of narratives / The idea of folklore : an essay / Myth in primitive society / Balder and the mistletoe / The myth of the birth of the hero / The historical development of mythology / Flying saucers : a modern myth / The vampire as bloodthirsty revenant : a psychoanalytic post mortem / More than stories, more than myths : animal/human/nature(s) in traditional ecological worldviews / Myth and reality / The original elements of mythology / CúChulainn's women and some Indo-European comparisons / Jewels and wounds / Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha / An outline of Propp's model for the study of wondertales / We think what we eat / The gun and the bow / The meaning of myth / Myth, memory and the oral tradition : Cicero in the Trobriands / Implicit mythology in the Shimla hills / Stone-faced ancestors : the spatial anchoring of myth in Wamira, Papua New Guinea / Amateur mythographies : fan fiction and the myth of myth / Storm power, an icy tower and Elsa's bower : the winds of change in Disney's Frozen / Science fiction as mythology / Does myth have a future? / |