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Boulder, Colo: NetLibrary, 2002
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2002
Description:
Andrew Von Hendy offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. He takes as its starting point some crucial moments in the 18th-century reinvention of the concept and then follows the major branches of theorizing as they appear in the work of theologians, philosophers, literary artists, political thinkers, folklorists, anthropologists, psychologists, and others
THE MODERN CONSTRUCTION OF MYTH; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 -- From Fable to Myth; Chapter 2 -- The Invention of Myth; Chapter 3 -- The Struggle between Myth and SuspicionŽ; Chapter 4 -- Myth as an Aspect of PrimitiveŽ Religion; Chapter 5 -- The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of Myth; Chapter 6 -- The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth; Chapter 7 -- Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury I: Myth as Mode of Thought and Language; Chapter 8 -- Neo-Romantic Theories of the Midcentury II: Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western Life.