Myth

Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It was inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas Sebeok). A systematic introduction and 15 contributions from a wide spectrum of disciplines offer a range of views on past myth study and suggest directions for the future. Contributors blend theoretical analysis with richly documented historical, ethnographic, and literary illustrations and examples drawn from Native American, classical, medieval, and modern sources.

Gregory Schrempp is Associate Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology and Co-director of the Program in Mythology Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

William Hansen is Professor and Chair of Classical Studies, Professor of Folklore, and Co-director of the Program in Mythology Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1

(18)

Gregory Schrempp

Part I. Revisiting Myth: A Symposium

Meanings and Boundaries: Reflections on Thompson's ``Myth and Folktales''

19

(10)

William Hansen

From Expressive Language to Mythemes: Meaning in Mythic Narratives

29

(17)

John H. McDowell

David Bidney and the People of Truth

46

(15)

Gregory Schrempp

Part II. Myth and Ethnography

Germans and Indians in South America: Ethnography and the Idea of Text

61

(11)

Lucia Sa

``Made from Bone'': Trickster Myths, Musicality, and Social Constructions of History in the Venezuelan Amazon

72

(17)

Jonathan D. Hill

Native American Reassessment and Reinterpretation of Myths

89

(18)

Barre Toelken

Part III. Myth and Historical Texts

Myth Read as History: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga

107

(17)

John Lindow

Myth and Legendum in Medieval and Modern Ireland

124

(15)

Joseph Falaky Nagy

The West and the People with Myth

139

(12)

Gordon Brotherston

Part IV. Myth and the Modern World

Myths of the Rain Forest/The Rain Forest as Myth

151

(14)

Candace Slater

Distempered Demos: Myth, Metaphor, and U.S. Political Culture

165

(18)

Robert L. Ivie

Part V. Myth and Visual Art

Imitation or Reconstruction: How Did Roman Viewers Experience Mythological Painting?

183

(20)

Eleanor W. Leach

Mud and Mythic Vision: Hindu Sculpture in Modern Bangladesh

203

(22)

Henry Glassie

Part VI. Myth as Concept

Myth in Historical Perspective: The Case of Pagan Deities in the Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies

225

(15)

R. D. Fulk

Can Myth Be Saved?

240

(9)

Gregory Nagy

Contributors

249

(4)

Index

253

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