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- Myth: A New Symposium
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- 2002
- Published by: Indiana University Press
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Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It was inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and 15 contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplines offer a range of views on past myth study and suggest directions for the future. Contributors blend theoretical analysis with richly documented historical, ethnographic, and literary illustrations and examples drawn from Native American, classical, medieval, and modern sources.
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- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- p. vii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-16
- Part I. REVISITING MYTH: A SYMPOSIUM
- Part II. MYTH AND ETHNOGRAPHY
- Part III. MYTH AND HISTORICAL TEXTS
- NINE. The West and the People with Myth
- pp. 139-148
- Part IV. MYTH AND THE MODERN WORLD
- Part V. MYTH AND VISUAL ART
- Part VI. MYTH AS CONCEPT
- FIFTEEN. Can Myth Be Saved?
- pp. 240-248
- CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 249-252
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