The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Miles-Watson, Jonathan; Asimos, Vivian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350082267
• Artikelnr.: 57069693

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Miles-Watson is Associate Professor of the Anthropology of Religion at Durham University, UK. He is the author of Welsh Mythology: A Neo-structuralist Analysis (2009) and co-editor of both Ruptured Landscapes: Landscape and Identity in Times of Social Change (2015) and Theories of Religion: A Reader (2006). Vivian Asimos is a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Religion and Theology at Durham University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements In Search of Mythology
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos Part One: What is Myth ? Locating the Field
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 1. A Two-Dimensional Scheme for the Classification of Narratives
C. Scott Littleton 2. The Idea of Folklore
Daniel 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? Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 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
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 1. Flying Saucers: a modern myth
Carl Gustav Jung 2. The Vampire as a Blood Thirsty Revenant
Alan Dundes 3. More than Stories
More than Myth
Amba Sepie Section C: Myth and History The Search for Truth
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 1. Myth and Reality
Mercia Eliade 2. The Original Elements of Mythology
Max Muller 3. Cú Chulainn's Women and some Indo-European Comparisons
Nicholas Allen Part Three: What do Myths Do? Section A: Structuralist Approaches Myth and Meaning
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 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: Neostructuralist Approaches Beyond Binaries
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 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
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 1. Myth Memory and the Oral Tradition
Frances Harwood 2. Implicit Mythology in the Shimla Hills
Jonathan Miles-Watson 3. Stone-Faced Ancestors: The Spatial Anchoring of Myth in Wamira
Miriam Khan Part Four: Where are Myths Going Section A: Myths and Popular Culture What Good Are Old Stories? Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 1. Amateur Mythographies
Ika Willis 2. Storm Power
an Icy Tower and Elsa's Bower
Lauren Dundes
Madeline Streiff and Zachary Streiff 3. Science Fiction as Mythology
Marilyn Sutton and Thomas Sutton Section B: The Future of Mythology Mythological Terminalia
Jonathan Miles-Watson and Vivian Asimos 1. Does Myth have a Future? Robert Segal Copyright Acknowledgements Index