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Author : William Nicolson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Myth
ISBN : HARVARD:HNKVZ3
Author : William Nicolson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11614928
Author : William Nicolson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:872206161
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:32000002997866
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148101000585X
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Best books
ISBN : UIUC:30112111184278
Author : William Swan Sonnenschein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015071097441
Author : M Kaplan,TR Tangherlini
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780578101743
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Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520342378
This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece; the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought; the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims. Almost none of these problems has been convincingly handled, even in a provisional way, up to the present, and this failure has vitiated not only such few general discussions as exist of the nature, meanings and functions of myths but also, in many cases, the detailed assessment of individual myths of different cultures. The need for a coherent treatment of these and related problems, and one that is not concerned simply to propagate a particular universalistic theory, seems undeniable. How far the present book will satisfactorily fill such a need remains to be seen. At least it makes a beginning, even if in doing so it risks the criticism of being neither fish nor fowl. Sociologists and folklorists may find it, from their specialized viewpoints, a little simplistic in places; and a few classical colleagues will not forgive me for straying far beyond Greek myths, even though these can hardly be understood in isolation or solely in the light of studies in cult and ritual. Others may find it less easy than anthropologists, sociologists, historians of thought or students of French and English literature to accept the relevance of Levi-Strauss to some of these matters; but his theory contains the one important new idea in this field since Freud, it is complicated and largely untested, and it demands careful attention from anyone attempting a broad understanding of the subject. The beliefs of Freud and Jung, on the other hand, are a more familiar element in the situation and have given rise to an enormous secondary literature, much of it arbitrary and some of it absurd. The author has tried to isolate the crucial ideas and subject them to a pointed, if too brief, critique; so too with those of Ernst Cassirer.
Author : Tok Thompson,Gregory Schrempp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197506691
The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for studying myth cross-culturally, and emerging trends. Readers will encounter insightful commentaries on such questions as: What is the relation of mythology to religion? To science? To popular culture? Did the events recounted in myths actually occur? Why does the term "myth" have so many contradictory definitions and connotations? Offering serious students with an intellectual "toolkit" for launching into this fascinating field, the book is especially useful in conjunction with case studies of individual mythological traditions.
Author : Charles Henry Stanley Davis
Publisher : New York : [s.n.]
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Egypt
ISBN : CORNELL:31924091208326
Author : Derek Gregory,Ron Johnston,Geraldine Pratt,Michael Watts,Sarah Whatmore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444359954
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Author : Vassilis Vitsaxis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9780977461004
Author : R. L. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521296404
The essays in this volume explore different aspects of the relation between Greek myth and Greek thought between the Archaic period (Homer and Hesiod) and the Hellenistic period, highlighting both the continuities and the contrasts in the Greek interpretations and 'uses' of myth. With the exception of the essay by Louis Gernet, all bear traces of the authors; attempts to combine older views stemming essentially from Durkheim and his pupils with Levi-Strauss's version of structuralism. Because the potential field is unmanageably large this selection concentrates on four important areas: the value of Greek myth in revealing the underlying coherence of Greek views of divinity; the manner in which Greek myth constructed meanings for Greek culture as a whole by selecting and combining certain motifs derived from different areas of life; the relationship between myth and delicate areas of social existence such as the nature of the value of certain objects and the passage of individuals from one status to another; and finally, the role of the myth in providing 'forms' for breaking rules - both in order to confirm the norm and to provide symbolic and actuals means of escape from dominant social rules and meanings. This book should be of interest to students in a number of disciplines concerned with myth and ancient society.
Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520023895
This book, developed out of the 1969 Sather lectures at Berkeley, California, confronts a wide range of problems concerning the nature, meaning and functions of myths. Professor Kirk's aim is to introduce a degree of coherence and of critical awareness into a subject that arouses profound interest today, but which for too long has been the target of excessive theorizing and interdisciplinary confusion between anthropologists, sociologists, classicists, philosophers and psychologists. Professor Kirk begins by discussing the relation of myths to rituals and folktales, and the weakness of universalist theories of function. He then subjects Lévi-Strauss's structuralist theory to an extended exposition and criticism; he considers the character and meaning of ancient Near Eastern myths, their influence on Greece, and the special forms with rational modes of thought, and finally, he assesses the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as elements of dreams, universal symbols, as accidents along the way to some narrative objective. The result is a significant critical venture into the history and philosophy of thought, imagination, symbol and society.--From publisher description.
