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ISBN 10: 1350082244
ISBN 13: 978-1350082243
Author: Jonathan Miles Watson, Vivian Asimos
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.
The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth 1st Table of contents:
part one What is myth?
Section A: What is myth?
Locating the field
1 A two-dimensional scheme for the classification of narratives C. Scott Littleton
2 The idea of folklore: An essay Dan Ben-Amos
3 Myth in primitive society Bronislaw Malinowski
part two Why do myths exist?
Section A: Global theories of myth
Are all myths the same?
1 Balder and the mistletoe James Frazer
2 The myth of the birth of the hero Otto Rank
3 The historical development of mythology Joseph Campbell
Section B: Myth and dreams
(Dis)embodied mythology
1 Flying saucers: A modern myth Carl G. Jung
2 The vampire as bloodthirsty revenant: A psychoanalytic post mortem Alan Dundes
3 More than stories, morethan myths: Animal/human/nature(s) in traditional ecological worldviews Am
Section C: Myth andhistory
The search for truth
1 Myth and reality Mircea Eliade
2 The original elements of mythology Max Müller
3 CúChulainn’s women and some Indo-European comparisons Nicholas J. Allen
part three What do myths do?
Section A: Structuralist approaches
Myth and meaning
1 Jewels and wounds Claude Lévi-Strauss
2 Pulleyar and the Lord Buddha Edmund Leach
3 An outline of Propp’s model for the study of wondertales Manuel Aguirre
Section B: Neostructuralistapproaches
Beyond binaries
1 We think what we eat Seth Kunin
2 The gun and the bow Stephen Hugh-Jones
3 The meaning of myth Mary Douglas
Section C: Spatial theories
From page to place
1 Myth, memory and the oral tradition: Cicero in the Trobriands Frances Harwood
2 Implicit mythology in the Shimla hills Jonathan Miles-Watson
3 Stone-faced ancestors: The spatial anchoring of myth in Wamira, Papua New Guinea Miriam Khan
part four Where are mythsgoing?
Section A: Myths and popular culture
What good are old stories?
1 Amateur mythographies: Fan fiction and the myth of myth Ika Willis
2 Storm power, an icy tower and Elsa’s bower: The winds of change in Disney’s Frozen Lauren Dun
3 Science fiction as mythology Marilyn Sutton and Thomas Sutton
Section B: The future ofmythology
Mythological Terminalia
1 Does myth have a future? Robert Segal
Index
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