The absence of myth
By: Sophia Heller.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Myth.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Which myth?; title: Approaches to the absence of myth; title: The refutation of absence; title: Elizabeth Baeten : myth as mirroring thought; title: Milton Scarborough : myth as overcoming dualism; title: The incorporation of absence; title: Christine Downing and Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig; title: Myth as psychological method; title: Bruce Lincoln and Robert Ellwood : myth as ideology; title: The necessity of absence; title: Eric Gould : myth as language; title: David Miller and Joseph Campbell : myth as mythoclastic; title: The simultaneous acknowledgement and discrediting of absence; title: Wendy Doniger : myth as a tool; title: The burden of meaning; title: The indiscriminate hero; title: Self and preservation; title: From myth to mythopoesis; title: Metaphorical and archetypal myth; title: Simulated myth; title: The problem of the in-between; title: God after "the death of God"; title: Excursus on deconstruction and depth psychology; title: Myth and consciousness; title: Why not myth?; title: The inessentiality of myth; title: After myth.