Introduction to mythology : contemporary approaches to classical and world myths /
Thury, Eva M.
Devinney, Margaret Klopfle,1941-
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 693-699) and index.
Introduction to studying myth -- What is myth? -- Ways of understanding myth -- Myths of creation and destruction -- Part 2A: Myths of creation -- Greek creation stories -- Ovid's creation story -- Biblical creation stories -- Enuma Elish : a Mesopotamian creation story -- The Prose Edda's creation stories -- Native American creation stories from the Southwestern United States -- African creation stories -- Nü kwa : a Chinese creator goddess -- Part 2B: Myths of destruction -- Ovid's flood story -- Biblical flood stories -- Ragnarok -- Heroes and tricksters -- The hero with a thousand faces : the book by Joseph Campbell, discussed by Dave Whomsley -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- A Levi-Straussian analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh / G.S. Kirk -- The Ramayana -- Heroes in the Prose Edda / Snorri Sturleson -- Oedipus the king / Sophocles -- The structural study of myth / Claude Levi-Strauss -- Raven : a native American trickster -- The Mwindo epic -- African and African-American trickster stories -- Prometheus : the Greek trickster -- Looking back at heroes : the different versions of a myth -- Ritual and myth -- Ritual / Victor Turner -- Demeter and Persephone : the Homeric Hymn to Demeter -- Isis and Osiris -- "Deciphering a meal" / Mary Douglas -- The rituals of Northern Europe / H.R. Ellis Davidson -- Heracles and Dionysus -- Myths and dreams -- Man and his symbols / C.G. Jung -- How to perform a Jungian analysis of a myth or fairytale -- Folktale and myth -- The morphology of the folktale / Vladimir Propp -- A Proppian analysis of The wizard of Oz -- Household tales / Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm -- Cupid and Psyche / Apuleius -- Using multiple analyses to highlight different aspects of the same tale -- Myth in a contemporary context -- A study of the construction of the Daniel Boone myth -- Stagecoach and Firefly : science fiction and the journey into the unknown -- Harry Potter : a Rankian take on the hero of Hogwarts -- Myth and literature -- Mythological themes in poetry -- Mythological themes in native American literature -- Mythological themes in modern narrative.
Mythology.