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Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals 2nd Revised edition


Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals 2nd Revised edition

Paperback by Doty, William G.

Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals

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ISBN:
9780817310066
Publication Date:
21 Mar 2000
Edition/language:
2nd Revised edition / English
Publisher:
The University of Alabama Press
Pages:
552 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 24 - 26 May 2024
Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals

Description

This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured, the new edition provides further depth and perspective and is even more accessible to students of myth. It includes expanded coverage of postmodern and poststructuralist perspectives, the Gernet Center, mythic iconography, neo-Jungian approaches, and cultural studies, and it summarizes what is new in the study of Greek myth, iconography, French classical scholarship, and ritual studies. It also features a comprehensive index of names and topics, a glossary, an up-to-date annotated bibliography, and a guide to myth on the Internet. Presenting all major myth theorists from antiquity to the present, Mythography is an encyclopedic work that offers a cross-disciplinary approach to the study of myth. By reflecting the dramatic increase in interest in myth among both scholars and general readers since publication of the first edition, it remains a key study of modern approaches to myth and an essential guide to the wealth of mythographic research available today.

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