Introduction to mythology
Subtitle: contemporary approaches to classical and world myths
By: Eva M. Thury, Margaret K. Devinney
Contributors: Devinney, Margaret Klopfle, 1941-
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 757
ISBN-13: 9780199859238; 9780199862771
Subjects: Mythologie; Mythology; Mythos
Description: Intergrating original texts with explanations, interpretations, and theory. Introduces students to a wide range of myths drawn from sources all around the world and approached from various critical perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Introduction to studying myth. What is myth?; title: Ways of understanding myth; title: pt. 2. Myths of creation and destruction; title: pt. 2A. Creation. Greece : Hesiod; title: Rome : Ovid; title: The Bible : Genesis (creation); title: Mesopotamia : Enuma Elish; title: Icelandic/Norse : Prose Edda (creation); title: North America : Zuni, Hopi, Navajo; title: Africa : Uganda and Nigeria; title: China : Nü kwa; title: Mesoamerica : Popol Vuh; title: pt. 2B. Destruction. Rome : Ovid (flood); title: The Bible : Genesis (flood); title: Icelandic/Norse : Prose Edda (Ragnarok); title: pt. 3. Heroes and tricksters. Theory : Joseph Campbell, The hero with a thousand faces / Dave Whomsley; title: Mesopotamia : The epic of Gilgamesh; title: Applying theory : a Lévi-Straussian analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh / G.S. Kirk; title: India : the Ramayana; title: Icelandic/Norse : Prose Edda (heroes); title: Africa : the Mwindo epic; title: Greece : Oedipus the king / Sophocles; title: Theory : the structural study of myth / Claude Lévi-Strauss; title: North America : Raven; title: African and African-American trickster stories; title: Greece : Prometheus; title: Applying theory : different versions of myths; title: pt. 4. Ritual and myth. Theory : The forest of symbols / Victor Turner; title: Greece : Demeter and Persephone; title: Egypt : Isis and Osiris; title: Applying theory : meals in the Bible / Mary Douglas; title: Icelandic/Norse : the rituals of Iceland / H.R.E. Davidson; title: Greece : Heracles and Dionysus; title: pt. 5. Dreams and myth. Theory : Man and his symbols / C.G. Jung; title: Applying theory : how to perform a Jungian analysis; title: pt. 6. Folktale and myth. Theory : The morphology of the folktale / Vladimir Propp; title: Applying theory : a Proppian analysis of The wizard of Oz; title: Germany : Grimm's Household tales; title: Rome : "Cupid and Psyche" / Apuleius; title: Applying theory : highlighting different aspects of the same tale using multiple analyses; title: pt. 7. Contemporary myth. Daniel Boone : building the myth around the man; title: Stagecoach and Firefly : the journey into the unknown in westerns and science fiction; title: Harry Potter : a Rankian analysis of the hero of Hogwarts; title: The vampire as hero : tales of the undead in a contemporary context / Eva M. Thury; title: pt. 8. Literature and myth. Poetry and myth; title: "Yellow woman" : Native-American oral myth in a contemporary context / Leslie Marmon Silko; title: Narrative and myth.