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Uses of Comparative Mythology

Author : Kenneth L. Golden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317943198
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Uses of Comparative Mythology written by Kenneth L. Golden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.

Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth)

Author : Kenneth L. Golden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317550862
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Uses of Comparative Mythology (RLE Myth) written by Kenneth L. Golden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these ‘stories’ in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.

Comparative Mythology

Author : Jaan Puhvel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801834134
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Mythology written by Jaan Puhvel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In myth, author Puhvel argues, a human group expresses the thought patterns by which it formulates self-cognition and self-realization, attains self-knowledge and self-confidence, explains its own sources and sometimes tries to chart its destinies. Here, Puhvel unravels the prehistoric origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared prehistorical religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to the book as both a general introduction and a detailed reference.--From publisher description.

An Introduction to Comparative Mythology

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792409622
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (96 download)

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The New Comparative Mythology

Author : C. Scott Littleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520024038
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The New Comparative Mythology written by C. Scott Littleton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Comparative Mythology

Author : F Max (Friedrich Max) 1823-19 Müller
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019504611
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Mythology written by F Max (Friedrich Max) 1823-19 Müller and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the myths and legends of various cultures around the world, with an emphasis on similarities and differences between them. The authors argue that many seemingly disparate myths can be traced to a common origin, and that their study can illuminate fundamental aspects of human psychology and culture. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Uses of Comparative Mythology

Author : Kenneth L. Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781317550846
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Uses of Comparative Mythology written by Kenneth L. Golden and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in ou.

Comparative Mythology, Cultural and Social Studies and the Cultural Category- Factor Correlation Method

Author : Muata Ashby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781884564727
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (647 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Mythology, Cultural and Social Studies and the Cultural Category- Factor Correlation Method written by Muata Ashby and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the exposition of a method for studying and comparing cultures, myths, and other social aspects of a society. Originally published in 2002, it contains an expanded treatment as well as several refinements, along with examples of the application of the method.

An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore

Author : George W. Cox
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781494134266
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore written by George W. Cox and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1883 Edition.

Greek Mythology and Poetics

Author : Gregory Nagy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501732021
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Greek Mythology and Poetics written by Gregory Nagy and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the forces of interaction and change that transformed the Indo-European linguistic and cultural heritage into distinctly Greek social institutions between the eighth and the fifth centuries B.C. Included in the volume are thirteen of Nagy's major essays—all extensively revised for book publication—on various aspects of the Hellenization of Indo-European poetics, myth and ritual, and social ideology. The primary aim of this book is to examine the Greek language as a reflection of society, with special attention to its function as a vehicle for transmitting mythology and poetics. Nagy's emphasis on the language of the Greeks, and on its comparison with the testimony of related Indo-European languages such as Latin, Indic, and Hittite, reflects his long-standing interest in Indo-European linguistics. The individual chapters examine the development of Hellenic poetics in the traditions of Homer and Hesiod; the Hellenization of Indo-European myths and rituals, including myths of the afterlife, rituals of fire, and symbols in the Greek lyric; and the Hellenization of Indo-European social ideology, with reference to such cultural institutions as the concept of the city-state. A path-breaking application of the principles of social anthropology, comparative mythology, historical linguistics, and oral poetry theory to the study of classics, Greek Mythology and Poetics will be an invaluable resource for classicists and other scholars of linguistics and literary theory.

An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore

Author : George William Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore written by George William Cox and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Parallel Myths

Author : J.F. Bierlein
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307754642
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Parallel Myths written by J.F. Bierlein and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture.”—William E. Paden, Chair, Department of Religion, University of Vermont For as long as human beings have had language, they have had myths. Mythology is our earliest form of literary expression and the foundation of all history and morality. Now, in Parallel Myths, classical scholar J. F. Bierlein gathers the key myths from all of the world's major traditions and reveals their common themes, images, and meanings. Parallel Myths introduces us to the star players in the world's great myths—not only the twelve Olympians of Greek mythology, but the stern Norse Pantheon, the mysterious gods of India, the Egyptian Ennead, and the powerful deities of Native Americans, the Chinese, and the various cultures of Africa and Oceania. Juxtaposing the most potent stories and symbols from each tradition, Bierlein explores the parallels in such key topics as creation myths, flood myths, tales of love, morality myths, underworld myths, and visions of the Apocalypse. Drawing on the work of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Carl Jung, Karl Jaspers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and others, Bierlein also contemplates what myths mean, how to identify and interpret the parallels in myths, and how mythology has influenced twentieth-century psychology, philosophy, anthropology, and literary studies. “A first-class introduction to mythology . . . Written with great clarity and sensitivity.”—John G. Selby, Associate Professor, Roanoke College

The Uses of Greek Mythology

Author : Ken Dowden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134926278
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of Greek Mythology written by Ken Dowden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an innovative sequence of topics, Ken Dowden explores the uses Greeks made of myth and the uses to which we can put myth in recovering the richness of their culture. Most aspects of Greek life and history - including war, religion and sexuality - which are discernable through myth, as well as most modern approaches, are given a context in a book which is designed to be useful, accessible and stimulating.

Myths and Myths-makers

Author : John Fiske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Myths and Myths-makers written by John Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'

Author : Edward Pettit
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783748303
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' written by Edward Pettit and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.

An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore

Author : George W. Cox
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781451004793
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore written by George W. Cox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Introduction to the Science of Comparative Mythology and Folklore My purpose in this volume is to give a general view of the vast mass of popular traditions belonging to the Aryan nations of Asia and Europe, and of other tribes so far as the conditions of the subject may render necessary. Its starting point is the principle that the popular traditions of no one Aryan people can be really understood except in their relation to those of other tribes and nations of the same family, and that the epical and dramatic literature of those races has been constructed from materials common to all branches of the Aryan stock and furnished by popular sayings, stories, and tales, many of which have never had the good fortune to be more than the talk of nurses and children. The Greek term mythology scarcely expresses, indeed, the fact that the traditions, on which the epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry of the Aryan nations has sprung up, really constitute what in strict speech we may speak of as the whole learning of the people in early stages of thought and civilisation, and sum up their thoughts on the origin and constitution of the outward world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Myth

Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198724705
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Myth written by Robert Alan Segal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.