Mythography : the study of myths and rituals
William G. Doty
Bok · Engelsk · 2000
| Originaltittel | [ Mythography ]
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| Omfang | xxi, 577 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | Second edition
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| Opplysninger | Preface: A read/Me file for the user -- Acknowledgments -- PART 1: ACCESS TO TOOLS AND DEFINITIONS: Myth around the clock: from mama myth to mythographic analysis -- The nature of the mythical beast: a comprehensive, polyphasic working definition -- Maieutic, creative myth: conveying values and systems of interpreting reality -- The "Noble white man": why myths seem declasse in today's glitz culture -- PART 2: MYTHOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL SCHOOLS AND ISSUES: Comparativism and the functional contexts of myths and rituals -- Myth on the psychoanalytical couch: Freud and beyond -- The imaginal, archetypal turn: Jung, Hillman, and further beyond -- Mything links: mythlitcrit and cultural studies analyses (Marx was a smoothie) -- The enframing prime-time context is all: structuralisms, semiotics, and cultural history -- PART 3: MYTHIFIED EXISTENCE: The cosmological/symbological human/social body -- Yesterday's world wide web? ritual as culture's symbolic nexus -- Sacrificial scapegoating the origin of myth/religion? ritualizations as necessary gestures toward being human -- PART 4: MYTHIFIED EXPERIENCE: Making do in a decentered cosmos: signs of our myths and tales -- Don't myth (with) the boat: our deconstructed, fictive-mythic universe -- FURBISHING THE CREATIVE MYTHOGRAPHER'S TOOLKIT: Glossary -- Questions to address to mythic texts -- The new mythical iconography -- Myth on the Internet -- Selected introductory bibliography: access to individual mythological figures and topics.. - Presenting major myth theorists from antiquity to the present, this work offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of myth. Rewritten and restructured, it reflects the increased interest in myth among both scholars and general readers since the publication of the first edition.
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| Emner | Myth and ritual school.
Myth - Study and teaching. Ritual - Study and teaching. myter mytologi ritualer religion religionsvitenskap |
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| ISBN | 0817310053. - 0817310061
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