English

Myth and mythmaking.

Publisher: New York, G. Braziller 1960. Publication Date: 1960 Physical Description: 1 online resource (381 pages) Contents Note(s): The historical development of mythology / Joseph Campbell -- Recurrent themes in myths and mythmaking / Clyde Kluckhohn -- The yearning for paradise in primitive tradition / Mircea Eliade -- Theories of myth and the folklorist / Richard M. Dorson -- Stars and stories / Phyllis Ackerman -- Some meanings of myth / Harry Levin -- New directions from old / Northrop Frye -- An examination of the myth and ritual approach to Shakespeare / Herbert Weisinger -- The working novelist and the mythmaking process / Andrew Lytle -- World interpretation and self-interpretation: some basic patterns / Ernst Topitsch -- The three Romes: the migration of an ideology and the making of an autocrat / Robert Lee Wolff -- The myth of nazism / Henry Hatfield -- The world impact of the West: the mystique and the sense of participation in history / John T. Marcus -- A modern mythmaker / Philip Rieff -- Myth and identity / Jerome S. Bruner -- Myth and mass media / Marshall McLuhan -- The possible nature of a "mythology" to come / Henry A. Murray -- Appendix: "The necessity of myt

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