Introduction to Mythology
Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths
5. Auflage
Erschienen am 29. Mai 2025
Buch
Softcover
1008 Seiten
978-0-19-767131-3 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Integrating original texts with explanations, interpretations, and theory, the best selling Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, Fifth Edition, introduces students to a wide range of myths drawn from sources all around the world and approached from various critical and contemporary perspectives.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Introduction to Mythology is a first-class textbook. I have looked around at many other texts and there are very few with the breadth and depth of this book. * Marjorie Berman, Red Rocks Community College * This is an excellent guide to world mythology for both students and teachers. It is especially helpful to a teacher trying to cover a lot of global ground in a comprehensive mythology course. Few would have the expertise commanded by the two authors to cover everything from Native American through African through contemporary film myths. * Micaela Janan, Duke University * I've taught world mythology for twenty-five years, using a variety of texts over that time, and the Thury and Devinney textbook is by far the best and most valuable resource on the market. I have been using it since the first edition and haven't yet seen a superior work. * Marvin D. L. Lansverk, Montana State University * Introduction to Mythology covers mythology and also introduces the notion of myth in contemporary narrative form, all the while offering a coherent analytical group of ideas to explain why these themes we find in mythology are still in our narratives today. And it does so in one book. It is the only book I know of that takes such a comprehensive approach to the subject. * Bob G. Warren, Valencia College *Weitere Details
Auflage
5th Revised edition
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Editions-Typ
Überarbeitete Ausgabe
Maße
Höhe: 253 mm
Breite: 204 mm
Dicke: 42 mm
Gewicht
2341 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-767131-3 (9780197671313)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Personen
Eva M. Thury is Associate Professor of English at Drexel University.
Margaret K. Devinney is Associate Professor Emerita of German at Temple University.
Margaret K. Devinney is Associate Professor Emerita of German at Temple University.
Inhalt
Preface
Timeline
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING MYTH
1. What Is Myth?
2. Ways of Understanding Myth
PART 2. MYTHS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION
2A. Creation
3. Greece: Hesiod
4. Rome: Ovid (Creation)
5. The Bible: Genesis (Creation)
6. Mesopotamia: Enuma Elish
7. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Creation)
8. North America: Stories from the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo (Southwest); and from the Iroquois League (Northeastern Woodlands)
9. Africa: Uganda and Nigeria
10. China: Nue Kwa, Kuan Yin, and Monkey
11. Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh
2B. Destruction
12. Rome: Ovid (Flood)
13. The Bible: Genesis (Flood)
14. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Ragnarok)
PART 3. HEROES AND TRICKSTERS
15. Theory: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dave Whomsley
16. Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh
17. Applying Theory: A Levi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh, G. S. Kirk
18. India: The Ramayana
19. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Heroes)
20. Arthurian Legend: The Holy Grail, Donna Lynne Rondolone
21. Africa: The Mwindo Epic
22. Greece: Oedipus the King , Sophocles
23. Theory: The Structural Study of Myth, Claude Levi-Strauss
24. North America: Raven
25. African and African-American Trickster Stories
26. Greece: Prometheus
27. Applying Theory: Different Versions of Myths
PART 4. RITUAL AND MYTH
28. Theory: The Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner
29. Greece: Demeter and Persephone
30. Egypt: Isis and Osiris
31. Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible, Mary Douglas
32. Icelandic/Norse: The Rituals of Iceland, H.R. Ellis Davidson
33. Greece: Heracles and Dionysus
PART 5. DREAMS AND MYTH
34. Theory: Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
35. Applying Theory: How to Perform a Jungian Analysis
PART 6. FOLKTALE AND MYTH
36. Theory: The Morphology of the Folktale, Vladimir Propp
37. Applying Theory: A Proppian Analysis of The Wizard of Oz
38. Germany: Grimms' Household Tales
39. Rome: "Cupid and Psyche," Apuleius
40. Applying Theory: Highlighting Different Aspects of the Same Tale Using Multiple Analyses
PART 7. CONTEMPORARY MYTH
41. Daniel Boone: Building the Myth around the Man, Richard Slotkin
42. Harry Potter: A Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts, M. Katherine Grimes
43. "Dark of the World, Shine on Us": Ryan Coogler's Black Panther George Faithful
PART 8. LITERATURE AND MYTH
44. Poetry and Myth
45. The Half-God of Rainfall: Classical and African Myth in an Epic Poem Inua Ellams
46. "Yellow Woman": Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary Context Leslie Marmon Silko
47. Narrative and Myth
Glossary of Gods, Heroes, and Antiheroes
Additional Works Cited
Credits
Index
Timeline
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING MYTH
1. What Is Myth?
2. Ways of Understanding Myth
PART 2. MYTHS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION
2A. Creation
3. Greece: Hesiod
4. Rome: Ovid (Creation)
5. The Bible: Genesis (Creation)
6. Mesopotamia: Enuma Elish
7. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Creation)
8. North America: Stories from the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo (Southwest); and from the Iroquois League (Northeastern Woodlands)
9. Africa: Uganda and Nigeria
10. China: Nue Kwa, Kuan Yin, and Monkey
11. Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh
2B. Destruction
12. Rome: Ovid (Flood)
13. The Bible: Genesis (Flood)
14. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Ragnarok)
PART 3. HEROES AND TRICKSTERS
15. Theory: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dave Whomsley
16. Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh
17. Applying Theory: A Levi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of Gilgamesh, G. S. Kirk
18. India: The Ramayana
19. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Heroes)
20. Arthurian Legend: The Holy Grail, Donna Lynne Rondolone
21. Africa: The Mwindo Epic
22. Greece: Oedipus the King , Sophocles
23. Theory: The Structural Study of Myth, Claude Levi-Strauss
24. North America: Raven
25. African and African-American Trickster Stories
26. Greece: Prometheus
27. Applying Theory: Different Versions of Myths
PART 4. RITUAL AND MYTH
28. Theory: The Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner
29. Greece: Demeter and Persephone
30. Egypt: Isis and Osiris
31. Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible, Mary Douglas
32. Icelandic/Norse: The Rituals of Iceland, H.R. Ellis Davidson
33. Greece: Heracles and Dionysus
PART 5. DREAMS AND MYTH
34. Theory: Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
35. Applying Theory: How to Perform a Jungian Analysis
PART 6. FOLKTALE AND MYTH
36. Theory: The Morphology of the Folktale, Vladimir Propp
37. Applying Theory: A Proppian Analysis of The Wizard of Oz
38. Germany: Grimms' Household Tales
39. Rome: "Cupid and Psyche," Apuleius
40. Applying Theory: Highlighting Different Aspects of the Same Tale Using Multiple Analyses
PART 7. CONTEMPORARY MYTH
41. Daniel Boone: Building the Myth around the Man, Richard Slotkin
42. Harry Potter: A Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts, M. Katherine Grimes
43. "Dark of the World, Shine on Us": Ryan Coogler's Black Panther George Faithful
PART 8. LITERATURE AND MYTH
44. Poetry and Myth
45. The Half-God of Rainfall: Classical and African Myth in an Epic Poem Inua Ellams
46. "Yellow Woman": Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary Context Leslie Marmon Silko
47. Narrative and Myth
Glossary of Gods, Heroes, and Antiheroes
Additional Works Cited
Credits
Index