Structuralism In Myth
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Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198724705 |
This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. In this new edition, Robert Segal considers both the future study of myth as well as the impact of areas such as cognitive science and the latest approaches to narrative theory.
Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9780815322603 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134522304 |
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.
Author | : Claude Lévi-Strauss |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 2013-12-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317914422 |
The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights. It is a crystalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, including the theory of structuralism and the difference between 'primitive' and 'scientific' thought and shows why Levi-Strauss remains a hugely important intellectual figure. With a new foreword by Patrick Wilcken.
Author | : Roland A. Champagne |
Publisher | : Scholarly Title |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Robert Scholes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1974-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780300018509 |
The nature and leading exponents of the structuralist movement are considered as well as the structural poetics of fiction and drama
Author | : Jonathan Miles-Watson |
Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1604976209 |
A little-known lecture by Lévi-Strauss is the inspiration for this work. In this lecture, he intuitively suggested that in medieval Europe there once existed a set of myths, centred on the grail, which are structurally the opposite of the goatsucker myths that he famously analyzed in his mythologiques series. This work uses Lévi-Strauss' inspirational lecture as a launchpad for an exploration of a group of related medieval Welsh myths, two of which have been briefly considered previously by Lévi-Strauss himself. The root of the methodological approach this book employs throughout is the Structuralism of Claude Lévi-Strauss; however, it has been modified to incorporate the suggestions of later neo-Structuralists. This analysis tool is applied to a group of myths, which have become conveniently--if somewhat erroneously--known as the Mabinogion. The name Mabinogion appears as part of a colophon at the end of one of the myth of Pwyll and it was later adopted first by Pugh (1835), and then by Lady Charlotte Guest (1838) as a title for their now famous translations of Welsh mythology. Consequently, the title has stuck to describe the material that is contained within their translations and, while it is a somewhat inaccurate way to describe the myths, it has the virtues of being both a succinct and widely recognised signifier. The term has come to signify eight myths, or perhaps more accurately eight groups of myths, which are all present in the late fourteenth-century manuscript Llyfr Coch Hergest (The Red Book of Hergest), and all but one of which can be found in the slightly earlier Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch (The White Book of Rhydderch). As such, the Mabinogion is the key collection of medieval Welsh mythology and an important source for early Arthurian material. Although Structuralism and the Mabinogion have attracted a good deal of attention from the academic world, there has been never been a sustained attempt to follow Levi-Strauss' intuitive insights with a methodical Structuralist analysis of this material. In the year of Lévi-Strauss' centenary celebrations, this work is the first sustained attempt to follow his intuitive suggestions about several Mabinogion myths with a detailed Structuralist analysis of the Mabinogion. This work is therefore a unique anthropological presentation and analysis of the Mabinogion, which argues for a radical, new interpretation of these myths in light of the existence of a central system of interlocking symbols that has the Grail at its heart. Through the analysis, the book reveals a logical organizational principle that underlies a body of material that has previously been viewed as disparate and confusing. This underlying structure is demonstrated to be, as Lévi-Strauss suggested it may, the opposite of that which Lévi-Strauss himself uncovered in the Americas. The revelation of this new form of underlying structure leads to a rethinking of some important aspects of Structuralism, including the Canonical formula, at the same time as acting as a tribute to the farsightedness of Lévi-Strauss. This book makes important contributions to the fields of Arthurian studies, anthropology, Celtic studies, cultural studies, medieval studies, mythology and religious studies.
Author | : Edmund Leach |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1983-09-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780521274920 |
Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also give some account of past interactions between anthropologists and Christian theologians, and enter the debate on the historicity of Biblical events. Edmund Leach has been interested for many years in the implications of a structuralist mode of myth analysis for the explanation of scriptural texts and problems. His essays in this book continue the line of enquiry he first developed in Genesis as Myth (1969) and he pursues his arguments here with characteristic colour and brilliance of exposition. With the two pieces by Dr Alan Aycock on related themes, this volume makes a fascinating and controversial contribution to the study and interpretation of the Bible.
Author | : Robert Alan Segal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : 9781135611521 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Joseph Campbell |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1990-02-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780060964634 |
The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.