The New Comparative Mythology
Title | The New Comparative Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | C. Scott Littleton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Dumezil, Georges |
ISBN | 9780520024038 |
The New Comparative Mythology
Title | The New Comparative Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | C. Scott Littleton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780520024045 |
Comparative Mythology
Title | Comparative Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | Jaan Puhvel |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801834134 |
In myth, author Puhvel argues, a human group expresses the thought patterns by which it formulates self-cognition and self-realization, attains self-knowledge and self-confidence, explains its own sources and sometimes tries to chart its destinies. Here, Puhvel unravels the prehistoric origins of the traditions of India and Iran, Greece and Rome, of the Celts, Germans, Balts, and Slavs. Utilizing the methodologies of historical linguistics and archaeology, he reconstructs a shared prehistorical religious, mythological, and cultural heritage. Separate chapters on individual traditions as well as on recurrent themes give life to the book as both a general introduction and a detailed reference.--From publisher description.
The New Comparative Mythology. An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil
Title | The New Comparative Mythology. An Anthropological Assessment of the Theories of Georges Dumézil PDF eBook |
Author | Covington Scott LITTLETON |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
An Introduction to Comparative Mythology
Title | An Introduction to Comparative Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781792409622 |
The New Comparative Mythology
Title | The New Comparative Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | C. Scott Littleton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 319 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780520041035 |
Uses of Comparative Mythology
Title | Uses of Comparative Mythology PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth L. Golden |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 205 |
Release | 2021-04-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317943198 |
This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.