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Myth – A New Symposium de Gregory Schrempp

Myth – A New Symposium

Autor Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 oct 2002
Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It is inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and 15 contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplines offer a range of views on past myth study and suggest directions for the future. Contributors blend theoretical analysis with richly documented historical, ethnographic, and literary illustrations and examples drawn from Native American, classical, medieval, and modern sources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253341587
ISBN-10: 0253341582
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 187 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Gregory SchremppI. Revisiting Myth: A Symposium1. Meanings and Boundaries: Reflections on Thompson's "Myth and Folktales" William Hansen2. From Expressive Language to Mythemes: Meaning in Mythic Narratives John H. McDowell3. David Bidney and the People of Truth Gregory SchremppII. Myth & Ethnography4. Germans and Indians in South America: Ethnography and the Idea of Text Lecia Sa5. "Made from Bone": Trickster Narratives, Musicality, and Social Constructions of History in the Venezuelan Amazon Jonathan D. Hill6. Native American Reassessment and Reinterpretation of Myths Barre ToelkenIII. Myth & Historical Texts7. Myth Read as History: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga John Lindow8. Myth and Legendum in Medieval and Modern Ireland Joseph Falaky Nagy9. The West and the People with Myth Gordon BrotherstonIV. Myth & the Modern World10. Myths of the Rain Forest/The Rain Forest as Myth Candace Slater11. Distempered Demos: Myth, Metaphor, and U.S. Political Culture Robert L. Ivie V. Myth & Visual Art12. Imitation or Reconstruction: How Did Roman Viewers Experience Mythological Painting? Eleanor Winsor Leach13. Mud and Mythic Vision: Hindu Sculpture in Modern Bangladesh Henry GlassieVI. Myth as Concept14. Myth in Historical Perspective: The Case of Pagan Deities in the Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies R. D. Fulk15. Can Myth Be Saved? Gregory NagyIndex; Contributors

Recenzii

Almost 50 years ago, Myth: A Symposium, ed. by Thomas Seboek (1955), offered scholars from many fields the opportunity to contemplate--in print--varying, often dissenting, assessments of the nature and meaning of myth across cultures. Schrempp and Hansen's sequel, comprising essays derived from a conference titled The Symposium on Myth, is larger than the earlier collection and includes both essays referring to significant contributions to the earlier volume and narrowly focused essays on particular aspects of myth (e.g., its visual representation in the culture of Rome preserved by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE). The range of contributions testifies to the complexity of myth as defined and redefined by scholars across many disciplines. Indeed, the opening essays (one each by Hansen and John McDowell) consider the difficulties and challenges posed when luminaries in the field attempt to define, classify, and analyze myth. McDowell's essay in particular provides entry for both scholars and interested lay readers. Robert Ivie's contribution, Distempered Demos: Myth, Metaphor, and US Political Culture, expands the borders of the study of myth, identifying competing and contradictory myths at the heart of the political divide between James Madison's vision of democracy and Thomas Jefferson's. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections; large public libraries.--R. Nadelhaft, emerita, University of Maine, 2003may CHOICE

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edited by Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen

Descriere

A multi-disciplinary reconsideration of myth