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100 | 1 | _aThury, Eva M. | |
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_aIntroduction to mythology : _bcontemporary approaches to classical and world myths / _cEva M. Thury, Drexel University; Margaret K. Devinney, Temple University. |
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_aNew York ; _aOxford : _bOxford University Press, _c[2016] |
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_a"Integrating original texts with explanations, interpretations, and theory, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, Fourth Edition, introduces students to a wide range of myths drawn from sources all around the world and approached from various critical perspectives"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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505 | 0 | _aPreface -- Time Line -- PART 1. INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING MYTH. What Is Myth? -- Ways of understanding myth -- PART 2. MYTHS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION. PART 2A. CREATION. Greece : Hesiod -- Rome : Ovid (creation) -- The Bible : Genesis (creation) -- Mesopotamia : Enuma Elish -- Icelandic/Norse : prose Edda (creation) -- North America : stories from the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo (Southwest) and from the Iroquois League (Northeastern Woodlands) -- Africa : Uganda and Nigeria -- China : NuÌ Kwa, Kuan Yin and monkey -- Mesoamerica : Popol Vuh -- PART 2B. DESTRUCTION. Rome : Ovid (flood) -- The Bible : Genesis (flood) -- Icelandic/Norse : prose Edda (Ragnarok) -- PART 3. HEROES AND TRICKSTERS. Theory : Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Dave Whomsley -- Mesopotamia : the Epic of Gilgamesh -- Applying theory : A LeÌvi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh / G.S. Kirk -- India : the Ramayana -- Icelandic/Norse : prose Edda (heroes) -- Arthurian legend : the Holy Grail-- Africa: the Mwindo epic -- Greece : Oedipus the King / Sophocles -- Theory : "The Structural Study of Myth" / Claude LeÌvi-Strauss -- North America : Raven -- African and African-American trickster stories -- Greece : Prometheus -- Applying theory : different versions of myths -- PART 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 -- PART 5. DREAMS AND MYTH. Theory : Man and His Symbols / C.G. Jung -- Applying theory : how to perform a Jungian analysis -- PART 6. FOLKTALE AND MYTH. Theory : The Morphology of the Folktale / Vladimir Propp -- Applying theory : A Proppian analysis of The Wizard of Oz -- Germany : Grimms' household tales -- Rome : "Cupid and Psyche" / Apuleius -- Applying theory : highlighting different aspects of the same tale using multiple analyses -- PART 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 -- PART 8. LITERATURE AND MYTH. Poetry and Myth -- "Yellow Woman" : Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary Context / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Narrative and myth glossary of gods, heroes, and antiheroes. | |
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_aDevinney, Margaret Klopfle, _d1941- |
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