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001 2013454703
003 DLC
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008 140227s2013 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013454703
020 $a9780199859238 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
020 $a019985923X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn801675521
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050 00 $aBL312$b.T48 2013
082 04 $a201/.3$222
100 1 $aThury, Eva M.
245 10 $aIntroduction to mythology :$bcontemporary approaches to classical and world myths /$cEva M. Thury, Drexel University, Margaret K. Devinney, Temple University.
250 $aThird edition.
264 1 $aNew York ;$aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c[2013]
300 $a1 volume (various pagings) :$billustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. Introduction to studying myth. What is myth? -- Ways of understanding myth -- Pt. 2. Myths of creation and destruction -- Pt. 2A. Creation. Greece : Hesiod -- Rome : Ovid -- The Bible : Genesis (creation) -- Mesopotamia : Enuma Elish -- Icelandic/Norse : Prose Edda (creation) -- North America : Zuni, Hopi, Navajo -- Africa : Uganda and Nigeria -- China : Nü kwa -- Mesoamerica : Popol Vuh -- Pt. 2B. Destruction. Rome : Ovid (flood) -- The Bible : Genesis (flood) -- Icelandic/Norse : Prose Edda (Ragnarok) -- Pt. 3. Heroes and tricksters. Theory : Joseph Campbell, The hero with a thousand faces / Dave Whomsley -- Mesopotamia : The epic of Gilgamesh -- Applying theory : a Lévi-Straussian analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh / G.S. Kirk -- India : the Ramayana -- Icelandic/Norse : Prose Edda (heroes) -- Africa : the Mwindo epic -- Greece : Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- Theory : the structural study of myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- North America : Raven -- African and African-American trickster stories -- Greece : Prometheus -- Applying theory : different versions of myths -- Pt. 4. Ritual and myth. Theory : The forest of symbols / Victor Turner -- Greece : Demeter and Persephone -- Egypt : Isis and Osiris -- Applying theory : meals in the Bible / Mary Douglas -- Icelandic/Norse : the rituals of Iceland / H.R.E. Davidson -- Greece : Heracles and Dionysus -- Pt. 5. Dreams and myth. Theory : Man and his symbols / C.G. Jung -- Applying theory : how to perform a Jungian analysis -- Pt. 6. Folktale and myth. Theory : The morphology of the folktale / Vladimir Propp -- Applying theory : a Proppian analysis of The wizard of Oz -- Germany : Grimm's Household tales -- Rome : "Cupid and Psyche" / Apuleius -- Applying theory : highlighting different aspects of the same tale using multiple analyses -- Pt. 7. Contemporary myth. Daniel Boone : building the myth around the man -- Stagecoach and Firefly : the journey into the unknown in westerns and science fiction -- Harry Potter : a Rankian analysis of the hero of Hogwarts -- The vampire as hero : tales of the undead in a contemporary context / Eva M. Thury -- Pt. 8. Literature and myth. Poetry and myth -- "Yellow woman" : Native-American oral myth in a contemporary context / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Narrative and myth.
650 0 $aMythology.
700 1 $aDevinney, Margaret Klopfle,$d1941-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1406/2013454703-t.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1406/2013454703-d.html