Myth : a new symposium /

Other Authors: Schrempp, Gregory Allen,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Meanings and boundaries: reflections on Thompson's "Myth and folktales" / William Hansen
  • From expressive language to mythemes: meaning in mythic narratives / John H. McDowell
  • David Bidney and the people of truth / Gregory Schrempp
  • Germans and Indians in South America: ethnography and the idea of text / Lúcia Sá
  • "Made from bone": trickster myths, musicality, and social constructions of history in Venezuelan Amazon / Jonathan D. Hill
  • Native American reassessment and reinterpretation of myths / Barre Toelken
  • Myth read as history: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga / John Lindow
  • Myth and legendum in medieval and modern Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy
  • The west and the people with myth / Gordon Brotherston
  • Myths of the rain forest/the rain forest as myth / Candace Slater
  • Distempered demos: myth, metaphor, and U.S. political culture / Robert L. Ivie
  • Imitation or reconstruction: how did Roman viewers experience mythological painting? / Eleanor W. Leach
  • Mud and mythic vision: Hindu sculpture in modern Bangladesh / Henry Glassie
  • Myth in historical perspective: the case of pagan deities in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies / R.D. Fulk
  • Can myth be saved? / Gregory Nagy.