The Poetics of Myth | Eleazar M. Meletinsky | Taylor & Francis eBooks,

ABSTRACT

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |11 pages

Historical Overview

chapter |5 pages

Remythification in Philosophy and in the Study of Culture

chapter |6 pages

Ritualism and Functionalism

chapter |4 pages

The French Sociological School

chapter |10 pages

The Symbolic Theories

chapter |14 pages

Analytical Psychology

chapter |20 pages

Structuralism

chapter |19 pages

Myth, Ritual, Archetypes, and Literary Criticism

chapter |24 pages

Mythopoetics in Russian and Soviet Thought

chapter |9 pages

Preliminary Conclusions

chapter |26 pages

Notes to Part I

part |1 pages

Preliminaiy Observations

chapter |4 pages

The General Characteristics of Mythological Thought

part |2 pages

The Functional Orientation of Myth

chapter |5 pages

Mythical Time and Its Paradigms

chapter |14 pages

Ancestors, Demiurges, Culture Heroes

chapter |4 pages

Archaic Creation Myths

part |2 pages

The Origins of Society

chapter |9 pages

Chaos, Order, and the Creation of the Universe

chapter |4 pages

The Cosmic Model

chapter |4 pages

Seasonal Myths

chapter |3 pages

Cosmic Cycles and the End of the Universe

chapter |4 pages

Heroic Myths and Rites of Passage

chapter |28 pages

The Semantics of Mythical Plots and Systems

chapter |14 pages

Myth, Tale, Epic

chapter |10 pages

Notes to Part II

chapter |16 pages

Historical Introduction

part |2 pages

The Mythological Novel in the Twentieth Century: Some Preliminary Observations

chapter |36 pages

An Antithesis: Joyce and Mann

chapter |16 pages

Kafka’s Mythopoetics

chapter |12 pages

Various Aspects of Mythification in the Contemporary Novel

chapter |12 pages

Notes to Part III

chapter |60 pages

Bibliography

chapter |65 pages

Subject Index and Glossary