Myth (Hardcover, 1st)

Volume I Introduction by Robert Segal Part 1: Surveys of Theories of Myth 1. Richard M. Dorson, ‘Theories of Myth and the Folklorist’, Daedalus 88 (1959): 280?90. 2. Percy S. Cohen, ‘Theories of Myth’, Man, N.S., 4 (1969): 337?53. 3. Alan Dundes, ‘The Psychoanalytic Study of Folklore’, Annals of Scholarship 3 (1985): 1?42. 4. Jaan Puhvel, ‘The Study of Myth’, Comparative Mythology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987), pp. 1?20. 5. Robert A. Oden, Jr., ‘Myth and Mythology’, in David Noel Freedman (ed.), Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992), vol. 4, pp. 946?56. Part 2: Myth and History 6. Lord Raglan, ‘The Hero of Tradition’, Folklore 45 (1934): 212?31. 7. Peter Heehs, ‘Myth, History, and Theory’, History and Theory 33 (1994): 1?19. 8. A. E. Wardman, ‘Myth in Greek Historiography’, Historia 9 (1960): 403?13. 9. Geo Widengren, ‘Myth and History in Israelite-Jewish Thought’, in Stanley Diamond (ed.), Culture in History: Essays in Honor of Paul Radin (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960), pp. 467?95. Part 3: Myth and Nationalism 10. George Schopflin, ‘The Functions of Myth and a Taxonomy of Myths’, in Geoffrey Hosking and George Schopflin (eds.), Myths and Nationhood (London: Hurst, 1997), pp. 19?36. 11. Jay W. Baird, ‘The Myth of Langemarck’, in To Die for Germany (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 1?12. 12. Richard T. Hughes, Myths America Lives By (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004) pp. 19?44. Part 4: Myth and Ideology 13. Ernst Cassirer, ‘Judaism and the Modern Political Myths’, Contemporary Jewish Record 7 (1944): 115?26. 14. Ben Halpern, ‘"Myth" and "Ideology" in Modern Usage’, History and Theory 1 (1961): 129?49. 15. Christopher G. Flood, Political Myth: A Theoretical Introduction (New York and London: Routledge, 2002), pp. 41?4, 275?6. Part 5: Myth and Psychology 16. Sigmund Freud, ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. James Strachey et al. (London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, 1953), vol. 4, pp. 260?3. 17. Robert Eisner, The Road to Daulis: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, and Classical Mythology (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1987), pp. 9?26. 18. Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, trans. F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1914), pp. 61?83. 19. Weston La Barre, ‘Folklore and Psychology’, Journal of American Folklore 61 (1948): 382?90. 20. Alan Dundes, ‘The Flood as Male Myth of Creation’, Journal of Psychoanalytic Anthropology 9 (1986): 359?72. 21. Jacob A. Arlow, ‘Ego Psychology and the Study of Mythology’, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 9 (1961): 371?93. 22. Erich Fromm, ‘The Oedipus Myth’, Scientific American 180 (1949): 22?7. 23. C. G. Jung, ‘The Psychology of the Child Archetype’, in Sir Herbert Read et al. (eds.), The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, 2nd edn., trans. R. F. C. Hull et al. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1959), vol. 9, part 1, pp. 151?81. 24. Joseph Campbell, ‘The Hero and the God’, in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edn. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968) pp. 30?40. 25. Carlos C. Drake, ‘Jung and His Critics’, Journal of American Folklore 80 (1967): 321?33. 26. David L. Miller, ‘An Exploded Cultural Sphere: The Death of God and the Rebirth of the Gods’, The New Polytheism, 2nd edn. (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1981), pp. 23?35. Volume II Part 1: Myth and Ritual 27. William Robertson Smith, ‘Lecture I: Introduction: The Subject and the Method of Enquiry’, Lectures on the Religion of the Semites. First Series: The Fundamental Institutions (Edinburgh: Black, 1889), pp. 1?28. 28. James George Frazer, ‘The Myth of Adonis’, Adonis Attis Osiris: Studies in the History of Oriental Religion (vol. 5 of The Golden Bough, 3rd edn.) (London: Macmillan, 1914), pp. 3?12. 29. Jane Ellen Harrison, ‘Introduction’, in Themis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1912), pp. xi?xxv. 30. S. H. Hooke, ‘The Myth and Ritual Pattern of the Ancient East’, in S. H. Hooke (ed.), Myth and Ritual (London: Oxford University Press, 1933), pp. 1?14. 31. Stanley Edgar Hyman, ‘The Ritual View of Myth and the Mythic’, Journal of American Folklore 68 (1955): 462?72. 32. William Bascom, ‘The Myth-Ritual Theory’, Journal of American Folklore 70 (1957): 103?14. 33. Rene Girard, ‘What Is a Myth?’, in The Scapegoat, trans. Yvonne Freccero (London: Athlone Press, 1986), pp. 24?34. 34. Walter Burkert, Homo Necans, tr. Peter Bing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), pp. 29?34. Part 2: Myth and Literature 35. Jane Ellen Harrison, ‘Ritual, Art, and Life’, Ancient Art and Ritual (London: Williams and Norgate, 1913), pp. 204?29. 36. Gilbert Murray, ‘Hamlet and Orestes: A Study in Traditional Types’, Proceedings of the British Academy 6 (113?14): 389?412. 37. Jesse L. Weston, From Ritual to Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920) pp. 52?64. 38. Northrop Frye, ‘The Archetypes of Literature’, Kenyon Review 13 (1951): 92?110. 39. Herbert Weisinger, ‘The Myth and Ritual Approach to Shakespearean Tragedy’, Centennial Review 1 (1957): 142?66. 40. Richard Chase, ‘Myth as Literature’, in English Institute Essays 1947 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1948), pp. 3?22. 41. Ian Watt, ‘Robinson Crusoe as a Myth’, Essays in Criticism 1 (1951): 95?119. 42. Philip Rahv, ‘The Myth and the Powerhouse’, Partisan Review 20 (1953): 635?48. 43. Daniel Russell Brown, ‘A Look at Archetypal Criticism’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 28 (1970): 465?72. 44. Denis Donohue, ‘Yeats, Eliot, and the Mythical Method’, Sewannee Review 105 (1997): 206?26. Volume III Part 1: Myth and Anthropology / Structuralism 45. [Friedrich] Max Muller, ‘On the Philosophy of Mythology’, Contemporary Review 19 (1871?2): 97?119. 46. Andrew Lang, ‘Mythology’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th edn., vol. 17 (Edinburgh: Black, 1884), pp. 135?58. 47. Richard M. Dorson, ‘The Eclipse of Solar Mythology’, Journal of American Folklore 68 (1955): 393?416. 48. Franz Boas, ‘The Growth of Indian Mythologies’, Journal of American Folklore 9 (1896): 1?11. 49. Bronislaw Malinowski, ‘Myth in Primitive Psychology’, in Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays (Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1948), pp. 93?148. 50. Claude Levi-Strauss, ‘The Structural Study of Myth’, Journal of American Folklore 68 (1955): 428?44. 51. K. R. Walters, ‘Another Showdown at the Cleft Way: An Inquiry into Classicists’ Criticism of Levi-Strauss’ Myth Analysis’, Classical World 77 (1984): 337?51. 52. Georges Dumezil, ‘The Archaic Triad: The Documents’ and ‘Interpretation: The Three Functions’, Archaic Roman Religion, tr. Philip Krapp (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), pp. 141?7. 53. C. Scott Littleton, ‘The Comparative Indo-European Mythology of Georges Dumezil’, Journal of the Folklore Institute 1 (1964): 147?66. 54. Roland Barthes, ‘Myth Today’, in Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers (New York: Hill and Wang, 1972), pp. 109?37. 55. Michael Moriarty, ‘Myths’, Roland Barthes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991), pp. 19?30, 212?14. Part 2: Myth and Philosophy 56. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, ‘The Transition to the Higher Mental Types’, How Natives Think, tr. Lilian A. Clare (New York: Washington Square Press, 1966), pp. 323?47. 57. E. E. Evans-Pritchard, ‘Levy-Bruhl’s Theory of Primitive Mentality’, University of Egypt Bulletin of the Faculty of Arts 2 (May 1934): 1?36. 58. Paul Radin, ‘Psychological Types: The Man of Action and the Thinker’ in The World of Primitive Man (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1953), pp. 37?67. 59. Ernst Cassirer, ‘The Mythical Consciousness of the Object’, The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol. II (‘Mythical Thought’), tr. Ralph Manheim (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1955), pp. 29?59. 60. Donald Verene, ‘Cassirer’s View of Myth and Symbol’, Monist 50 (1966): 553?64. 61. Rudolf Bultmann, ‘New Testament and Mythology’, in Hans-Werner Bartsch (ed.), Kerygma and Myth, vol. I (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1953), pp. 1?44. 62. R. F. Aldwinckle, ‘Myth and Symbol in Contemporary Philosophy and Theology: The Limits of Demythologizing’, Journal of Religion 34 (1954): 267?79. 63. Albert Camus, ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, tr. Justin O’Brien (New York: Vintage Books, 1960), pp. 88?91. 64. Paul Ricoeur, ‘The Symbolic Function of Myths’, The Symbolism of Evil, tr. Emerson Buchanan (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), pp. 161?74. 65. Cristiano Grottanelli, ‘Nietzsche and Myth’, History of Religions 37 (1997): 3?20. Volume IV Part 1: Myth and Religion 66. Raffaele Pettazzoni, ‘The Truth of Myth’, Essays on the History of Religions, Supplements to Numen, vol. I (Leiden: Brill, 1954), pp. 11?23. 67. Mircea Eliade, ‘The Prestige of the Cosmogonic Myth’, Diogenes, 23 (1958): 1?13. 68. H. and H. A. Frankfort, ‘Myth and Reality’, The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946), pp. 3?27. 69. Theodor H. Gaster, ‘Mythic Thought in the Ancient Near East’, Journal of the History of Ideas 16 (1955): 422?6. 70. John L. McKenzie, ‘Myth and the Old Testament’, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 21 (1959): 265?82. 71. C. K. Barrett, ‘Myth and the New Testament: The Greek Word MUTHOS’, Expository Times 68 (1957): 345?8. Part 2: Myth and Science / Science in Myth 72. Edward Burnett Tylor, ‘Mythology’, Primitive Culture, 5th edn. (London: John Murray, 1913), pp. 273?315. 73. Karl R. Popper, ‘Towards a Rational Theory of Tradition’, Conjectures and Refutations, 2nd edn. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965), pp. 120?35. 74. Samuel Noah Kramer, ‘Myths of Origins’, Sumerian Mythology, revised edn. (New York: Harper and Row, 1961), pp. 30?75. 75. Thorkild Jacobsen, ‘Sumerian Mythology: A Review Article’, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 5 (1946): 128?52. 76. Giorgio De Santillana, ‘Prologue’, The Origins of Scientific Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961). 77. Mott T. Greene, ‘Hesiod’s Volcanoes I. Titans and Typhoeus’, Natural Knowledge in Preclassical Antiquity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), pp. 46?72. 78. William Ryan, and Walter Pitman, ‘Other Myths’, Noah’s Flood (London: Simon and Schuster, 1999), pp. 250?66.