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Myth and mythmaking. / Edited and with an introduction by Henry A. Murray.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Henry A. (Henry Alexander), 1893-1988, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 381 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : George Braziller, 1960.
- Contents:
- The historical development of mythology / Joseph Campbell
- Recurrent themes in myths and mythmaking / Clyde Kluckhohn
- The yearning for paradise in primitive tradition / Mircea Eliade
- Theory of myth and the folklorist / Richard M. Dorson
- Stars and stories / Phyllis Ackerman
- Some meanings of myth / Harry Levin
- New directions from old / Northrop Frye
- An examination of the myth and ritual approach to Shakespeare / Herbert Weisinger
- The working novelist and the mythmaking process / Andrew Lytle
- World interpretation and self-interpretation: some basic patterns / Ernst Topitsch
- The three Romes: the migration of an ideology and the making of an autocrat / Robert Lee Wolff
- The myth of Nazism / Henry Hatfield
- The world impact of the West: the mystique and the sense of participation in history / John T. Marcus
- A modern mythmaker / Philip Rieff
- Myth and identity / Jerome S. Bruner
- Myth and mass media / Marshall McLuhan
- The possible nature of a "mythology" in come / Henry A. Murray
- Appendix: "The necessity of myth" / Mark Schorer; "Reflections on violence" / Georges Sorel; "Doctor Faustus" / Thomas Mann; "Freud and the future" / Thomas Mann.
- Notes:
- Many essays "were originally published in Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the issue devoted to 'Myth and Mythmaking' (Vol. 88, no. 2). The issue was guest-edited by Henry A. Murray".
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok August 1960 Philadelphia".
- OCLC:
- 1068176
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