Myth and Mythmaking - Softcover

MYTH AND MYTHMAKING

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book Condition: Very Good with slight tropical speckling to Page Edges. Otherwise, clean, clear text in tightly bound volume. No internal inscriptions, markings or stains. 4th Printing of 1968 Beacon Press Paperback Edition. Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches\nWeight: 13.6 ounces. The broad scope of this rich book succeeds in giving the reader an introduction to myth and mythmaking. Contents: Introduction . HENRY A. MURRAY 1. The Historical Development of Mythology . JOSEPH CAMPBELL 2. Recurrent Themes in Myths and Mythmaking . CLYDE KLUCKHOHN 3. The Yearning for Paradise in Primitive Tradition. MIRCEA ELIADE 4. Theories of Myth and the Folklorist . RICHARD M. DORSON 5. Stars and Stories . PHYLLIS ACKERMAN 6. Some Meanings of Myth . HARRY LEVIN 7. New Directions from Old . NORTHROP FRYE 8. An Examination of the Myth and Ritual Approach to Shakespeare. HERBERT WEISINGER 9. The Working Novelist and the Mythmaking Process. ADREW LYTLE 10. World Interpretation and Self-Interpretation: Some Basic Patterns. ERNST TOPITSCH 11. The Three Romes: The Migration of an Ideology and the Making of an Autocrat. ROBERT LEE WOLFF 12. The Myth of Nazism . HENRY HATFIELD 13. The World Impact of the West: The Mystique and the Sense of Participation in History. JOHN T. MARCUS 14. A Modern Mythmaker . PHILIP RIEFF 15. Myth and Identity . JEROME S. BRUNER 16. Myth and Mass Media . MARSHALL MCLUHAN 17. The Possible Nature of a "Mythology" to Come. HENRY A. MURRAY APPENDIX: I. "The Necessity of Myth." MARK SCHORER II. "Reflections on Violence." GEORGES SOREL III. "Doctor Faustus." THOMAS MANN IV. "Freud and the Future." THOMAS MANN. The volume that lies ahead of you is notable in the main for its scope, diversity, import, scholarship, and style. This is apparent from the start, since Mr. Campbell's brilliant chapter, written as his introduction to a work in progress--no less than a world-embracing history of mythology in four volumes--possesses all these qualities and something more, the vision of an emergent, energy-releasing frame of mind for those who are disposed and capable. Beginning with the earliest known patternings of myth in the Orient and Near East, Mr. Campbell carries us swiftly down the ages with eloquence and apt citations through daemonic and metaphysical mythology to the humanistic, poetic mythology of Greece, and finally to our current situation, leaving us with the seminal idea of extending Huizinga's conceptions of the "play-sphere" to the whole realm of myth. Although Mr. Campbell mentions the global distribution of certain mythic themes, in this volume it is Mr. Kluckhohn who with the skill of gift and discipline brings his encyclopedic and exact knowledge of primitive cultures to bear upon the question of cross-cultural universals in the field of myth as well as upon the problem of the psycho-sociological function of mythic imaginations. His substantial chapter, full of sage comments, now constitutes our most dependable basis for the reconstruction, among other things, of certain features of contemporary psychoanalytic theory. In contrast to these two authors, the equally knowledgeable and comprehensive Mr. Eliade has chosen to concentrate on a single integrate of myths, those descriptive of Paradise, the immortality of primordial man, his communion with God, his fall, the origin of death, and the discovery of the "spirit." With signal clarity and distinction, both of feeling and of thought, Mr. Eliade portrays the intimate relationship of this mythic compound with the ecstatic trances of shamanism, as well as the ideological continuity between this most elementary form of mystical experience and Christian mysticism. In the next chapter, Mr. Dorson, our foremost champion of the folklorist's point of view and methods, draws his sharp sword of reason and of satire and attacks the Hydra of monomaniac theories relative to the proper interpretation of myths. Here, for many of us, his special service consists in highlighting t. Artikel-Nr. 000550

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