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Myth : a new symposium /
Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It is inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and 15 contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplines offer a range o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Meanings and boundaries: reflections on Thompson's "Myth and folktales" / William Hansen
- From expressive language to mythemes: meaning in mythic narratives / John H. McDowell
- David Bidney and the people of truth / Gregory Schrempp
- Germans and Indians in South America: ethnography and the idea of text / Lúcia Sá
- "Made from bone": trickster myths, musicality, and social constructions of history in Venezuelan Amazon / Jonathan D. Hill
- Native American reassessment and reinterpretation of myths / Barre Toelken
- Myth read as history: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga / John Lindow
- Myth and legendum in medieval and modern Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy
- The west and the people with myth / Gordon Brotherston
- Myths of the rain forest/the rain forest as myth / Candace Slater
- Distempered demos: myth, metaphor, and U.S. political culture / Robert L. Ivie
- Imitation or reconstruction: how did Roman viewers experience mythological painting? / Eleanor W. Leach
- Mud and mythic vision: Hindu sculpture in modern Bangladesh / Henry Glassie
- Myth in historical perspective: the case of pagan deities in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies / R.D. Fulk
- Can myth be saved? / Gregory Nagy.