Mythography : The Study of Myths and Rituals.
Doty, William G.
Mythography : The Study of Myths and Rituals. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (601 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: A ReadMe File for the User -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Access To Tools and Definitions -- Chapter 1. Myth Around the Clock: From Mama Myth to Mythographic Analysis -- Myth the Mother -- Positive and Negative Uses of "Myth" -- The Myth- Terms of Our Analyses -- Hermeneutics and Interpretation -- The Range of Definitions -- Chapter 2. The Nature of the Mythical Beast: A Comprehensive, Polyphasic Working Definition (Part 1) -- (1) Network of Myths -- (2) Culturally Important -- (3) Imaginal -- (4) Stories -- (5) Metaphoric and Symbolic Diction -- (6) Graphic Imagery -- (7) Emotional Conviction and Participation -- (8) The Primal, Foundational Accounts -- (9) The Real, Experienced World -- (10) Humankind's Roles and Relative Statuses -- Chapter 3. Maieutic, Creative Myth: Conveying Values and Systems of Interpreting Reality (Definition, Part 2) -- (11) Convey Political and Moral Values -- (12) Systems of Interpretation -- (13) Individual Experience within Universal Perspectives -- (14) Intervention of Suprahuman Entities -- (15) Aspects of the Natural and Cultural Orders -- (16) Rituals, Ceremonials, and Dramas -- (17) Secondary Elaborations -- Chapter 4. The "Noble White Man": Why Myths Seem Déclassé in Today's Glitz Culture -- Those Primitive Savages Lacked Scienti¤c Truth -- Myths, Science, and Truth(s) -- Phenomenologically Existential Mythicity -- The Greeks Are Still Very Much With Us -- Myth and/versus Biblical History -- The Smart and the Proper: When Do We Do What We Say We Do? -- Part 2. Mythography: Historical Schools and Issues -- Chapter 5. Comparativism and the Functional Contexts of Myths and Rituals -- Sociofunctionalism: Myth as "Cement" and as "Charter" -- How Myths Serve Society -- Levels of Operational Vitality -- Functional Contexts of Myths and Rituals. Reducing Anxiety and Communicating: Two German Functionalists -- Polyfunctional and Polysemantic Meanings -- Chapter 6. Myth on the Psychoanalytical Couch: Freud and Beyond -- Sigmund's Mythology -- Manifest Contents Versus Latent Contents -- The Primal Horde, Civilization, and Religion -- A Mythological Reading of Freud -- Etiological Bias -- Mythological Interpretation -- Post-Freudian Mythography -- Psychosociology -- Psychoanthropology -- Chapter 7. The Imaginal, Archetypal Turn: Jung, Hillman, and Further Beyond -- Jungian Archetypes and Ampli¤cations -- Archetypal Myth -- The Animated Mythological Terrain of James Hillman -- Other Semi-/Hemi-/Neo-Jungian Myth Studies -- Psychologically Affective Myths and Rituals -- Chapter 8. Mything Links: Mythlitcrit and Cultural Studies Analyses (Marx Was a Smoothie) -- The Literary Importance of The Golden Bough -- Myth-and-Ritual Criticism -- Mythicosymbolism and Monomythicism -- Northrop Frye's Myth -- Mythic Figures in Literature -- Mythicity and the Modern/Postmodern -- Gould's Intentions of Mythicity -- Cultural Studies of Cultural Studies -- Chapter 9. The Enframing Prime-time Context Is All: Structuralisms, Semiotics, and Cultural History -- Structuralism and the Concepts of "Structure" -- Protostructuralist Structuralists -- Lévi-Strauss: The Myth and the Mythed -- Sequential and Semiotic Structuralists -- The New French Cultural History -- Bonnefoy/Doniger's Encyclopedia -- Biogentic Structuralism -- Part 3. Embodiments, Rites, and Ceremonials -- Chapter 10. The Cosmological/Symbological Human/Social Body -- Biofunctional, Biogenetic Approaches -- Joseph Campbell's Mythography -- The Local and the Universal -- Ethological Questions -- The Cosmological Human Body -- Biogenetic Colors -- Mythologically Attuned Bodies -- The Human Social Experience -- Bliss at the Mother's Breast. Gender Differentiation -- The Family and the Clan -- Dualities, Polarities, and Their Mediation -- Chapter 11. Yesterday's World Wide Web? : Ritual as Culture's Symbolic Nexus -- The Historical Ritual-Dominant (Myth-and-Ritual) School -- Emphasis upon the Priority of Ritual -- Victor Turner's Ritual Studies -- The Means of Analysis -- Rituals Reflect Social Structures -- Rituals Influence Social Relationships -- The Trickster and the Liminal / Liminoid -- Turner Updated -- Chapter 12. Sacrificial Scapegoating the Origin of Myth/Religion? : Ritualizations as Necessary Gestures toward Being Human -- Definitions and Attitudes and Functions -- Girard: Violence, the Sacred, and the Sacrificial Scapegoat -- Rene Girard -- The Theory: A Compressed Version -- Tracing the Theory's Heritage and Future -- Girard's NATURAL BORN KILLERS -- Developing Girardian Mythographies -- Contemporary Antiritualism and the Postmodern -- How Rituals Serve Society -- Ludic Liminality -- Part 4. Mythified Existence -- Chapter 13. Making Do in a Decentered Cosmos: Signs of Our Myths and Tales -- Social and Cultural Semiotics -- Transformation and Transmission of Mythic Materials -- Universalizing Fairy Tales and Myths -- Chapter 14. Don't Myth (with) the Boat: Our Deconstructed, Fictive-Mythic Universe -- From Realism on Down -- The Sacred as Fictive Mythicity -- Mythographic Moralities -- Furbishing The Creative Mythographer's Toolkit -- i. Glossary -- ii. Questions to Address to Mythic Texts -- iii. The New Mythical Iconography -- iv. Myth on the Internet -- v. Selected Introductory Bibliography: Access to Individual Mythological Figures and Topics -- 1. General Introductions to the Study of Mythology -- 2. The Historical Development of Mythographic Perspectives -- 3. Collections of Myths -- 4. On Defining Myth and Ritual -- 5. Sociofunctionalism -- Comparativism. 6. Ritual Studies Materials -- 7. Anthropological-Ethnographic Studies -- 8. Psychological Perspectives -- 9. Philosophical Perspectives -- 10. Religious and Theological Approaches -- 11. Archetypal Criticism and Myth Analysis of Literature -- 12. Linguistic-Narratological-Semiotic Structuralism -- 13. Transmission and Themes of Myths and Folklore -- 14. Feminist/Gender-Studies Aspects -- 15. Modern Appropriations of Myth -- Contemporary Culture Analysis -- 16. Myth and Ritual and the Arts -- 17. Exploring the Individual Mythostory -- 18. Advanced and Specialized Studies -- 19. Anthologies, Monographs, and Collections of Essays -- 20. Journal Issues with Thematic Emphasis on Myths/Rituals -- 21. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks -- 22. Bibliographies -- 23. A Mythographer's Basic Book List -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780817388263
Myth and ritual school.
Ritual-Study and teaching.
Myth-Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
BL304
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Mythography : The Study of Myths and Rituals. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (601 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: A ReadMe File for the User -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Access To Tools and Definitions -- Chapter 1. Myth Around the Clock: From Mama Myth to Mythographic Analysis -- Myth the Mother -- Positive and Negative Uses of "Myth" -- The Myth- Terms of Our Analyses -- Hermeneutics and Interpretation -- The Range of Definitions -- Chapter 2. The Nature of the Mythical Beast: A Comprehensive, Polyphasic Working Definition (Part 1) -- (1) Network of Myths -- (2) Culturally Important -- (3) Imaginal -- (4) Stories -- (5) Metaphoric and Symbolic Diction -- (6) Graphic Imagery -- (7) Emotional Conviction and Participation -- (8) The Primal, Foundational Accounts -- (9) The Real, Experienced World -- (10) Humankind's Roles and Relative Statuses -- Chapter 3. Maieutic, Creative Myth: Conveying Values and Systems of Interpreting Reality (Definition, Part 2) -- (11) Convey Political and Moral Values -- (12) Systems of Interpretation -- (13) Individual Experience within Universal Perspectives -- (14) Intervention of Suprahuman Entities -- (15) Aspects of the Natural and Cultural Orders -- (16) Rituals, Ceremonials, and Dramas -- (17) Secondary Elaborations -- Chapter 4. The "Noble White Man": Why Myths Seem Déclassé in Today's Glitz Culture -- Those Primitive Savages Lacked Scienti¤c Truth -- Myths, Science, and Truth(s) -- Phenomenologically Existential Mythicity -- The Greeks Are Still Very Much With Us -- Myth and/versus Biblical History -- The Smart and the Proper: When Do We Do What We Say We Do? -- Part 2. Mythography: Historical Schools and Issues -- Chapter 5. Comparativism and the Functional Contexts of Myths and Rituals -- Sociofunctionalism: Myth as "Cement" and as "Charter" -- How Myths Serve Society -- Levels of Operational Vitality -- Functional Contexts of Myths and Rituals. Reducing Anxiety and Communicating: Two German Functionalists -- Polyfunctional and Polysemantic Meanings -- Chapter 6. Myth on the Psychoanalytical Couch: Freud and Beyond -- Sigmund's Mythology -- Manifest Contents Versus Latent Contents -- The Primal Horde, Civilization, and Religion -- A Mythological Reading of Freud -- Etiological Bias -- Mythological Interpretation -- Post-Freudian Mythography -- Psychosociology -- Psychoanthropology -- Chapter 7. The Imaginal, Archetypal Turn: Jung, Hillman, and Further Beyond -- Jungian Archetypes and Ampli¤cations -- Archetypal Myth -- The Animated Mythological Terrain of James Hillman -- Other Semi-/Hemi-/Neo-Jungian Myth Studies -- Psychologically Affective Myths and Rituals -- Chapter 8. Mything Links: Mythlitcrit and Cultural Studies Analyses (Marx Was a Smoothie) -- The Literary Importance of The Golden Bough -- Myth-and-Ritual Criticism -- Mythicosymbolism and Monomythicism -- Northrop Frye's Myth -- Mythic Figures in Literature -- Mythicity and the Modern/Postmodern -- Gould's Intentions of Mythicity -- Cultural Studies of Cultural Studies -- Chapter 9. The Enframing Prime-time Context Is All: Structuralisms, Semiotics, and Cultural History -- Structuralism and the Concepts of "Structure" -- Protostructuralist Structuralists -- Lévi-Strauss: The Myth and the Mythed -- Sequential and Semiotic Structuralists -- The New French Cultural History -- Bonnefoy/Doniger's Encyclopedia -- Biogentic Structuralism -- Part 3. Embodiments, Rites, and Ceremonials -- Chapter 10. The Cosmological/Symbological Human/Social Body -- Biofunctional, Biogenetic Approaches -- Joseph Campbell's Mythography -- The Local and the Universal -- Ethological Questions -- The Cosmological Human Body -- Biogenetic Colors -- Mythologically Attuned Bodies -- The Human Social Experience -- Bliss at the Mother's Breast. Gender Differentiation -- The Family and the Clan -- Dualities, Polarities, and Their Mediation -- Chapter 11. Yesterday's World Wide Web? : Ritual as Culture's Symbolic Nexus -- The Historical Ritual-Dominant (Myth-and-Ritual) School -- Emphasis upon the Priority of Ritual -- Victor Turner's Ritual Studies -- The Means of Analysis -- Rituals Reflect Social Structures -- Rituals Influence Social Relationships -- The Trickster and the Liminal / Liminoid -- Turner Updated -- Chapter 12. Sacrificial Scapegoating the Origin of Myth/Religion? : Ritualizations as Necessary Gestures toward Being Human -- Definitions and Attitudes and Functions -- Girard: Violence, the Sacred, and the Sacrificial Scapegoat -- Rene Girard -- The Theory: A Compressed Version -- Tracing the Theory's Heritage and Future -- Girard's NATURAL BORN KILLERS -- Developing Girardian Mythographies -- Contemporary Antiritualism and the Postmodern -- How Rituals Serve Society -- Ludic Liminality -- Part 4. Mythified Existence -- Chapter 13. Making Do in a Decentered Cosmos: Signs of Our Myths and Tales -- Social and Cultural Semiotics -- Transformation and Transmission of Mythic Materials -- Universalizing Fairy Tales and Myths -- Chapter 14. Don't Myth (with) the Boat: Our Deconstructed, Fictive-Mythic Universe -- From Realism on Down -- The Sacred as Fictive Mythicity -- Mythographic Moralities -- Furbishing The Creative Mythographer's Toolkit -- i. Glossary -- ii. Questions to Address to Mythic Texts -- iii. The New Mythical Iconography -- iv. Myth on the Internet -- v. Selected Introductory Bibliography: Access to Individual Mythological Figures and Topics -- 1. General Introductions to the Study of Mythology -- 2. The Historical Development of Mythographic Perspectives -- 3. Collections of Myths -- 4. On Defining Myth and Ritual -- 5. Sociofunctionalism -- Comparativism. 6. Ritual Studies Materials -- 7. Anthropological-Ethnographic Studies -- 8. Psychological Perspectives -- 9. Philosophical Perspectives -- 10. Religious and Theological Approaches -- 11. Archetypal Criticism and Myth Analysis of Literature -- 12. Linguistic-Narratological-Semiotic Structuralism -- 13. Transmission and Themes of Myths and Folklore -- 14. Feminist/Gender-Studies Aspects -- 15. Modern Appropriations of Myth -- Contemporary Culture Analysis -- 16. Myth and Ritual and the Arts -- 17. Exploring the Individual Mythostory -- 18. Advanced and Specialized Studies -- 19. Anthologies, Monographs, and Collections of Essays -- 20. Journal Issues with Thematic Emphasis on Myths/Rituals -- 21. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Handbooks -- 22. Bibliographies -- 23. A Mythographer's Basic Book List -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780817388263
Myth and ritual school.
Ritual-Study and teaching.
Myth-Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
BL304
291.1/3