The world of myth [[electronic resource] /] / David Adams Leeming
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| Autore: |
Leeming David Adams <1937->
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| Titolo: |
The world of myth [[electronic resource] /] / David Adams Leeming
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1990 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 291.1/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Myth |
| Mythology | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. Cosmic myths -- pt. II. Myths of the gods -- pt. III. Hero myths -- pt. IV. Place and object myths. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself. Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The world of myth |
| ISBN: | 1-283-86316-2 |
| 0-19-976272-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452687203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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