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Sacred Narrative : Readings in the Theory of Myth / Alan Dundes; ed. by Alan Dundes.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dundes, Alan, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (352 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1984]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This new volume brings together classics statements on the theory of myth by authors such as William Bascom, Jan de Vries, G. S. Kirk, James G. Frazer, Theodor H. Gaster, Mircea Eliade, Bronislaw Malinowski, C. G. Jung, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.Rather than limiting this collection to classical Roman and Greek mythology, Dundes gives the book a worldwide scope. The twenty-two essays by leading experts on myth represent comparative functionalist, myth-ritual, Jungian, Freudian, and structuralist approaches to studying the genre.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)
- ISBN:
- 0-520-35213-0
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