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Myths in Crisis : The Crisis of Myth.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (471 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781443882026
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myths in CrisisDDC classification:
  • 291.13090199999999
LOC classification:
  • BL311 -- .M984 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / AGRADECIMIENTOS / REMERCIEMENTS -- SCIENTIFIC BOARD / COMITÉ CIENTÍFICO / COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE -- PREFACE -- PREFACIO -- PRÉFACE -- I. THEORY OF MYTH -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- II. ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MYTHS -- A. Myth and Anthropology -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- B. Myth, Morality and Religion -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- C. Myth, Politics and Society -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- D -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- III. MYTHS OF IMMANENCE -- A. Mythologizing People -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- B. Mythologizing Characters -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- C. Mythologizing Nations -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- ABSTRACTS -- INDEX.
Summary: This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure - implying the distortion or disappearance of myth - and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section examines the crisis experienced by those myths which permeate the material world, investigating historical and fictitious characters, mythologized places, and languages. The volume is a remarkable collection of 30 texts that were selected from 300 proposals by prestigious researchers from over 30 countries during the 3rd International Conference of Myth Criticism held in Madrid in October 2014.
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Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS / AGRADECIMIENTOS / REMERCIEMENTS -- SCIENTIFIC BOARD / COMITÉ CIENTÍFICO / COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE -- PREFACE -- PREFACIO -- PRÉFACE -- I. THEORY OF MYTH -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- II. ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN MYTHS -- A. Myth and Anthropology -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- B. Myth, Morality and Religion -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- Chapter Sixteen -- C. Myth, Politics and Society -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Chapter Nineteen -- D -- Chapter Twenty -- Chapter Twenty-One -- Chapter Twenty-Two -- III. MYTHS OF IMMANENCE -- A. Mythologizing People -- Chapter Twenty-Three -- Chapter Twenty-Four -- B. Mythologizing Characters -- Chapter Twenty-Five -- Chapter Twenty-Six -- Chapter Twenty-Seven -- C. Mythologizing Nations -- Chapter Twenty-Eight -- Chapter Twenty-Nine -- Chapter Thirty -- Chapter Thirty-One -- ABSTRACTS -- INDEX.

This trilingual volume examines the extent to which myths are affected by the crises of the 20th and 21st centuries. It brings together four theoretical studies which analyse both the crisis of structure - implying the distortion or disappearance of myth - and the crisis of concepts and terminology that currently threaten the study of mythology. The largest section of the volume focuses on the crises that have affected ancient, medieval and modern literary myths from a global perspective, taking into account psychology, ethics, politics and contemporary meta-literature. The final section examines the crisis experienced by those myths which permeate the material world, investigating historical and fictitious characters, mythologized places, and languages. The volume is a remarkable collection of 30 texts that were selected from 300 proposals by prestigious researchers from over 30 countries during the 3rd International Conference of Myth Criticism held in Madrid in October 2014.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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