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Introduction to mythology: contemporary approaches to classical and world myths
2009, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
- 2nd ed.
0195332946 9780195332940
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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