The modern construction of myth / Andrew Von Hendy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von Hendy, Andrew, 1932-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth--History.

Myth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""... one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von Hendy is writing not to expose the concept of myth but simply to show the array of ways in which it has been used from time to time and from place to place. A superb work."" -- Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster, author of Theorizing about MythAndrew

Contents:

THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF MYTH; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - From Fable to Myth; Chapter 2 - The Invention of Myth; Chapter 3 - The Struggle between Myth and SuspicionŽ; Chapter 4 - Myth as an Aspect of PrimitiveŽ Religion; Chapter 5 - The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of Myth; Chapter 6 - The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth; Chapter 7 - Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury I: Myth as Mode of Thought and Language; Chapter 8 - Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury II: Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western Life

Chapter 9 - Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology I: Malinowski, Boas, and Their Spheres of InfluenceChapter 10 - Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology II: From Lévi-Strauss to Withdrawal from Grand Theory; Chapter 11 - No Two-Headed Greeks: The Folkloristic Consensus in Classical Studies; Chapter 12 - Myth and Ideology; Chapter 13 - Myth as Necessary Fiction; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-378) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-06620-X

9786612066207

0-253-10880-2

OCLC:

150645506