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Contributors blend theoretical analysis with richly documented historical, ethnographic, and literary illustrations and examples drawn from Native American, classical, medieval, and modern sources.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Gregory Schrempp
I. Revisiting Myth: A Symposium
1. Meanings and Boundaries: Reflections on Thompson's "Myth and Folktales." William Hansen
2. From Expressive Language to Mythemes: Meaning in Mythic Narratives. John H. McDowell
3. David Bidney and the People of Truth. Gregory Schrempp
II. Myth & Ethnography
4. Germans and Indians in South America: Ethnography and the Idea of Text. Lúcia Sá
5. "Made from Bone": Trickster Narratives, Musicality, and Social Constructions of History in the Venezuelan Amazon. Jonathan D. Hill
6. Native American Reassessment and Reinterpretation of Myths. Barre Toelken
III. Myth & Historical Texts
7. Myth Read as History: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga. John Lindow
8. Myth and Legendum in Medieval and Modern Ireland. Joseph Falaky Nagy
9. The West and the People with Myth. Gordon Brotherston
IV. Myth & the Modern World
10. Myths of the Rain Forest/The Rain Forest as Myth. Candace Slater
11. Distempered Demos: Myth, Metaphor, and U.S. Political Culture. Robert L. Ivie
V. Myth & Visual Art
12. Imitation or Reconstruction: How Did Roman Viewers Experience Mythological Painting? Eleanor Winsor Leach
13. Mud and Mythic Vision: Hindu Sculpture in Modern Bangladesh. Henry Glassie
VI. Myth as Concept
14. Myth in Historical Perspective: The Case of Pagan Deities in the Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies. R. D. Fulk
15. Can Myth Be Saved? Gregory Nagy
Index
Contributors
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edited by Gregory Schrempp, William Hansen
Summary
A multi-disciplinary reconsideration of myth
