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Mythography : the study of myths and rituals / William G. Doty.

By: Doty, William G, 1939-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: Second editionDescription: xxi, 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0817310061 (pbk. : acidfree paper); 0817310053 (cloth : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Myth -- Study and teaching | Ritual -- Study and teaching | Myth and ritual schoolDDC classification: 291.1/3 LOC classification: BL304 | .D58 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [476]-568) and index.; Internet resources (pages [473]-475).
Contents:
Myth around the clock: from mama myth to mythographic analysis -- The nature of the mythical beast: a comprehensive, polyphasic working definition -- Maieutic, creative myth: conveying values and systems of interpreting reality -- The "Noble white man": why myths seem déclassé in today's glitz culture -- Comparativism and the functional contexts of myths and rituals -- Myth on the psychoanalytical couch: Freud and beyond -- The imaginal, archetypal turn: Jung, Hillman, and further beyond -- Mything links: mythlitcrit and cultural studies analyses (Marx was a smoothie) -- The enframing prime-time context is all: structuralisms, semiotics, and cultural history -- The cosmological/symbological human/social body -- Yesterday's world wide web? ritual as culture's symbolic nexus -- Sacrificial scapegoating the origin of myth/religion? ritualizations as necessary gestures toward being human -- Making do in a decentered cosmos: signs of our myths and tales -- Don't myth (with) the boat: our deconstructed, fictive-mythic universe.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL304 .D58 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902394812

Includes bibliographical references (pages [476]-568) and index.

Internet resources (pages [473]-475).

Myth around the clock: from mama myth to mythographic analysis -- The nature of the mythical beast: a comprehensive, polyphasic working definition -- Maieutic, creative myth: conveying values and systems of interpreting reality -- The "Noble white man": why myths seem déclassé in today's glitz culture -- Comparativism and the functional contexts of myths and rituals -- Myth on the psychoanalytical couch: Freud and beyond -- The imaginal, archetypal turn: Jung, Hillman, and further beyond -- Mything links: mythlitcrit and cultural studies analyses (Marx was a smoothie) -- The enframing prime-time context is all: structuralisms, semiotics, and cultural history -- The cosmological/symbological human/social body -- Yesterday's world wide web? ritual as culture's symbolic nexus -- Sacrificial scapegoating the origin of myth/religion? ritualizations as necessary gestures toward being human -- Making do in a decentered cosmos: signs of our myths and tales -- Don't myth (with) the boat: our deconstructed, fictive-mythic universe.

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