Theorists of Myth
Myth Analyzed
1st Edition
By Robert A. Segal
April 29, 2022
Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities. This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, philosophy, ...
Myth and the Human Sciences: Hans Blumenberg's Theory of Myth
1st Edition
By Angus Nicholls
November 10, 2016
This is the first book-length critical analysis in any language of Hans Blumenberg’s theory of myth. Blumenberg can be regarded as the most important German theorist of myth of the second half of the twentieth century, and his Work on Myth (1979) has resonated across disciplines ranging from ...
Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Myth: Volume III
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert A. Segal
July 15, 2016
Much of the theorizing about myth in philosophy and religious studies grows out of efforts to understand the classics and the Bible. In the case of the classics, the presence of myth has been taken for granted, and conclusions reached about Greek and Roman mythology have spurred generalizations ...
Cassirer and Langer on Myth: An Introduction
1st Edition
By William Schultz
January 20, 2016
This book provides a detailed overview of the approach by two of the leading philosophical theorists of myth....
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth
1st Edition
By Daniel Merkur
July 17, 2014
This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights....
Kenneth Burke on Myth: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Lawrence Coupe
June 09, 2014
Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas. He published widely, and is ...
The Myth and Ritual School: J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists
1st Edition
By Robert Ackerman
August 16, 2002
The enduring importance of his book The Golden Bough keeps J.G. Frazer's name prominent on the list of the most significant figures in modern religious studies. But by no means was Fraser the sole influence on the Cambridge-based school of thought-- myth-ritualism-- most often associated with him....
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade
1st Edition
By Douglas Allen
April 26, 2002
This multidisciplinary study is the first book devoted entirely to the critical interpretation of the writings of Mircea Eliade on myth. One of the most popular and influential historians and theorists of myth, Eliade argued that all myth is religious. Douglas Allen critically interprets Eliade's ...
Jung and the Jungians on Myth
1st Edition
By Steven Walker
January 02, 2002
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was never more insightful and intriguing than when he discussed mythology. The key to understanding the Jungian approach to mythology lies in the concept of the image, which provides the basis for his theory of the unconscious. By emphasizing the image over the word, ...
Rene Girard and Myth: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Richard Golsan
January 02, 2002
In this comprehensive introduction to the work of contemporary French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture. Golsan highlights two of Girard's primary concepts...
Political Myth
1st Edition
By Christopher Flood
November 21, 2001
First Published in 2002. Myth theorists characterize myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an ideologically marked narrative that purports to give a true account of a set of past, present, or predicted ...
Northrop Frye on Myth
1st Edition
By Ford Russell
August 29, 2000
Nortrop Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing all of the major literary genres--romance, comedy, satire, not just tragedy--to myth and ritual. This volume is the most thorough presentation of his thinking on the subject....