Introduction to mythology: contemporary approaches to classical and world myths
Introduction to studying myth -- What is myth? -- Ways of understanding myth -- Myths of creation and destruction -- Part 2a: Myths of creation -- Greek creation stories -- Ovid's creation story -- Biblical creation stories -- Enuma Elish : a mesopotamian creation story -- The prose Edda's...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Edition: | 2. ed. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Myth
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| Further subjects: | B
Mythology
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| Summary: | Introduction to studying myth -- What is myth? -- Ways of understanding myth -- Myths of creation and destruction -- Part 2a: Myths of creation -- Greek creation stories -- Ovid's creation story -- Biblical creation stories -- Enuma Elish : a mesopotamian creation story -- The prose Edda's creation stories -- Native American creation stories from the Southwestern United States -- African creation stories -- Nu kwa : a Chinese creation goddess -- Part 2b: Myths of destruction -- Ovid's flood story -- Biblical flood stories -- Ragnarok -- Heroes and tricksters -- The hero with a thousand faces : the book by Joseph Campbell, discussed by David Whomsley -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- A Levi-straussian analysis of the epic of Gilgamesh -- The Ramayana -- Heroes in the prose Edda-Snorri Sturleson -- Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- The structural study of myth / Claude Levi-Ctrauss -- Raven : a native American trickster -- The Mwindo epic -- African and African-American trickster stories -- Prometheus : the Greek trickster -- Looking back at heroes : the different versions of a myth -- Ritual and myth -- Ritual-victor turner -- Demeter and persephone : the homeric hymn to demeter -- Isis and Osiris -- Deciphering a meal / Mary Douglas -- The rituals of Northern Europe / H.R. Ellis Davidson -- Heracles and Dionysus -- Myths and dreams -- Man and his symbols / C.G. Jung -- How to perform a jungian analysis of a myth or fairytale -- Folktale and myth -- The morphology of the folktale / Vladimir Propp -- A proppian analysis of the Wizard of Oz -- Household tales / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm -- "Cupid and psyche" / Apuleius -- Using multiple analyses to highlight different aspects of the same tale -- Myth in a contemporary context -- A study of the construction of the Daniel Boone myth -- Stagecoach and firefly : science fiction and the journey into the unknown -- Harry Potter : a rankian take on the hero of hogwarts -- Myth and literature -- Mythological themes in poetry -- Mythological themes in native American literature -- Mythological themes in modern narrative |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0195179684 |