Mythography The Study of Myths and Rituals

Name: Mythography The Study of Myths and Rituals
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ISBN: 9780817310066

ISBN-10: 0817310061

ISBN-13: 9780817310066

Edition: 2nd 2000

Authors: William G. Doty

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Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Publication date: 3/21/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 600
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Preface: A ReadMe File for the User


Acknowledgments



Myth Around the Clock: From Mama Myth to Mythographic Analysis



The Nature of the Mythical Beast: A Comprehensive, Polyphasic Working Definition (Part 1)



Maieutic, Creative Myth: Conveying Values and Systems of Interpreting Reality (Definition, Part 2)



The "Noble White Man": Why Myths Seem Declasse 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


Glossary


Questions to Address to Mythic Texts


The New Mythical Iconography


Myth on the Internet


Selected Introductory Bibliography: Access to Individual Mythological Figures and Topics


Bibliography


Index