Myth: A Very Short Introduction

Segal, Robert A.

ISBN 10: 0192803476 / ISBN 13: 9780192803474

Editore: Oxford University Press, 2004

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Titolo: Myth: A Very Short Introduction

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

Legatura: Paperback

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Riassunto:

Robert A. Segal introduces the reader to the array of approaches to the study of myth that have arisen in the past few hundred years. These approaches hail from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, and religious studies. What unites them are the questions they ask: what is the origin, what is the function, and what is the subject matter of myth? The theories differ in their answers to these questions, and even in which questions they emphasize. The theorists covered include Tylor, Frazier, Malinowski, Eliade, Levi-Strauss, Freud, Jung, Frye, and Girard. Segal tests them all by their applicability to the famous ancient myth of Adonis.

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Robert A. Segal is Professor of Theories of Religion at the University of Lancaster.


Robert Segal lectures in the Department of Religious Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of The Poimandres as Myth, Religion and the Social Sciences, Explaining and Interpreting Religion, and Theorizing about Myth.