Bøker i Theorists of Myth-serien

This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.

The only book that described the origins and rise of myth-and-ritual literary criticism.

In this comprehensive introduction, to French critic Rene Girard, Richard Golsan focuses on Girard's theory of myth and its connections to his broader exploration of the origins of suffering and violence in Western culture.

Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing the major literary genres-romance,comedy, satire, not just tragedy-to myth and ritual. This is the most thorough presentation of his thinking.

Myth theorists characterise myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an ideologically marked narrative, widely accepted as valid in its essentials.

'Meletinsky grasps the essentials of theories he discusses and makes clear distinctions between them Highly recommended for upper division undergraduates, graduate students and teachers/scholars of myth.' - Choice

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

Kenneth Burke--rhetorician, philosopher, linguist, sociologist, literary and music critic, crank--was one of the foremost theorists of literary form. He did not fit tidily into any philosophical school, nor was he reducible to any simple set of principles or ideas. He published widely, and is probably best known for two of his classic works, A Rhetoric of Motive and Philosophy of Literary Form. His observations on myth, however, were never systematic, and much of his writing on literary theory and other topics cannot be fully understood without fleshing out his thoughts on myth and mythmaking.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Steven Walker carefully leads the reader through the essential lines of thought in Jungian psychology before developing his method for using Jungian ideas to approach mythological texts.