The Modern Construction of Myth

CONTENTS

C O N T E N T S acknowledgments ix introduction xi 1 From Fable to Myth 1 2 The Invention of Myth 25 3 The Struggle between Myth and “Suspicion” 49 4 Myth as an Aspect of “Primitive” Religion 77 5 The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of Myth 112 6 The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth 134 7 Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury I: 154 Myth as Mode of Thought and Language 8 Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury II: 178 Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western Life 9 Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology I: 202 Malinowski, Boas, and Their Spheres of Influence 10 Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology II: 230 From Lévi-Strauss to Withdrawal from Grand Theory 11 No Two-Headed Greeks: 262 The Folkloristic Consensus in Classical Studies 12 Myth and Ideology 278 13 Myth as Necessary Fiction 304 notes 341 works cited 363 index 379 ...