An edition of Introduction to mythology
(2013)
Introduction to mythology
contemporary approaches to classical and world myths
Third edition.
by Eva M. Thury
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Intergrating original texts with explanations, interpretations, and theory. Introduces students to a wide range of myths drawn from sources all around the world and approached from various critical perspectives.
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Introduction to mythology: contemporary approaches to classical and world myths
2013, Oxford University Press, USA
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Table of Contents
pt. 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.
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