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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828591003321

Autore

Von Hendy Andrew <1932->

Titolo

The modern construction of myth / / Andrew Von Hendy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-282-06620-X

9786612066207

0-253-10880-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (408 p.)

Disciplina

398.2/09/03

Soggetti

Myth - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-378) and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF MYTH; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - From Fable to Myth; Chapter 2 - The Invention of Myth; Chapter 3 - The Struggle between Myth and SuspicionŽ; Chapter 4 - Myth as an Aspect of PrimitiveŽ Religion; Chapter 5 - The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of Myth; Chapter 6 - The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth; Chapter 7 - Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury I: Myth as Mode of Thought and Language; Chapter 8 - Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury II: Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western Life

Chapter 9 - Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology I: Malinowski, Boas, and Their Spheres of InfluenceChapter 10 - Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology II: From Lévi-Strauss to Withdrawal from Grand Theory; Chapter 11 - No Two-Headed Greeks: The Folkloristic Consensus in Classical Studies; Chapter 12 - Myth and Ideology; Chapter 13 - Myth as Necessary Fiction; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

""... one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the                course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more                useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von                Hendy is writing not to expose the concept of myth but simply to show the array of                ways in which it has been used from time to time and from place to place. A superb                work."" -- Robert A. Segal, University of



Lancaster, author of                Theorizing about MythAndrew