'Serious students will savor Meletinsky's rich and complex book. The opening section alone is valuable for its erudite examination of modern theory about myth, with special attention to Levi-Strauss and the structuralists. Meletinsky grasps the essentials of theories he discusses and makes clear distinctions between them Highly recommended for upper division undergraduates, graduate students and teachers/scholars of myth.' - Choice
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Serious students will savor Meletinsky's rich and complex book. The opening section alone is valuable for its erudite examination of modern theory about myth, with special attention to Levi-Strauss and the structuralists. Meletinsky grasps the essentials of theories he discusses and makes clear distinctions between them....Highly recommended for upper division undergraduates, graduate students, and teachers/scholars of myth.
–Choice
The Poetics of Myth merits attention for its claim that myth is always expanding: that stories told may always be retold, that a mythology received may also be renewed, that symbolic world-making is never quite complete.
–Religious Studies Review
–Choice
The Poetics of Myth merits attention for its claim that myth is always expanding: that stories told may always be retold, that a mythology received may also be renewed, that symbolic world-making is never quite complete.
–Religious Studies Review
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Classical philisophy began with a rational reevaluation of the mythological materials and, obviously, dealt with the problem of the relationship between knowledge and mythic narration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern mythification, mythological epos, mythological semantics, advanced mythologies, primitive syncretism, chthonic demons, chthonic monsters, bourgeois prose, totemic myths, mythological novel, seasonal myths, structurale deux, mythological consciousness, archaic mythologies, znakovym sistemam, ritual school, cosmic tree, mythological imagination, demoniacal forces, archaic mythology, primordial creation, ritual approach, totemic ancestors, mythological parallels, resurrected god Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Magic Mountain, Finnegans Wake, Rainbow Serpent, Thomas Mann, Australian Aborigines, Australian Aboriginal, New Criticism, North American Indian, Latin American, Hans Castorp, James Joyce, Middle Earth, Robinson Crusoe, Frau Chauchat, Joseph Campbell, Gregor Samsa, South American Indian, The Masks of God, World War, Don Quixote, Franz Boas, Franz Kafka, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Stephen Dedalus, The Golden Pot New!
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Classical philisophy began with a rational reevaluation of the mythological materials and, obviously, dealt with the problem of the relationship between knowledge and mythic narration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modern mythification, mythological epos, mythological semantics, advanced mythologies, primitive syncretism, chthonic demons, chthonic monsters, bourgeois prose, totemic myths, mythological novel, seasonal myths, structurale deux, mythological consciousness, archaic mythologies, znakovym sistemam, ritual school, cosmic tree, mythological imagination, demoniacal forces, archaic mythology, primordial creation, ritual approach, totemic ancestors, mythological parallels, resurrected god Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Magic Mountain, Finnegans Wake, Rainbow Serpent, Thomas Mann, Australian Aborigines, Australian Aboriginal, New Criticism, North American Indian, Latin American, Hans Castorp, James Joyce, Middle Earth, Robinson Crusoe, Frau Chauchat, Joseph Campbell, Gregor Samsa, South American Indian, The Masks of God, World War, Don Quixote, Franz Boas, Franz Kafka, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Stephen Dedalus, The Golden Pot New!
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- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann on 24 pages
- Joseph and His Brothers: The Stories of Jacob, Young Joseph, Joseph in Egypt, Joseph the Provider by Thomas Mann on 16 pages
- Primitive Man as Philosopher by Paul Radin on 4 pages
- Passing Time (Jupiter Books) by Michael Butor on page 331, page 351, and Back Matter
- Moby Dick (Usborne Classics) by H Melville on page 132, page 140, and Back Matter
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- The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists (Theorists of Myth) by Robert Ackerman in Front Matter
- Religion, Myth and Folklore in the World's Epics: Kalevala and Its Predecessors by Lauri Honko on page 539
- A Gorgon's Mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction (Psychoanalysis and Culture, 12) (Psychoanalysis & Culture) by Lewis A. Lawson in Back Matter
- Political Myth (Theorists of Myth) by Christopher Flood in Front Matter
- Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction (Theorists of Myth) by Lawrence Coupe in Front Matter
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