附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Meanings and boundaries: reflections on Thompson's "Myth and folktales" / William Hansen -- From expressive language to mythemes: meaning in mythic narratives / John H. McDowell -- David Bidney and the people of truth / Gregory Schrempp -- Germans and Indians in South America: ethnography and the idea of text / Lúcia Sá -- "Made from bone": trickster myths, musicality, and social constructions of history in Venezuelan Amazon / Jonathan D. Hill -- Native American reassessment and reinterpretation of myths / Barre Toelken -- Myth read as history: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga / John Lindow -- Myth and legendum in medieval and modern Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The west and the people with myth / Gordon Brotherston -- Myths of the rain forest/the rain forest as myth / Candace Slater -- Distempered demos: myth, metaphor, and U.S. political culture / Robert L. Ivie -- Imitation or reconstruction: how did Roman viewers experience mythological painting? / Eleanor W. Leach -- Mud and mythic vision: Hindu sculpture in modern Bangladesh / Henry Glassie -- Myth in historical perspective: the case of pagan deities in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies / R.D. Fulk -- Can myth be saved? / Gregory Nagy.
摘要:Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It is 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.
