Myth: a new symposium

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

Meanings and boundaries: reflections on Thompson's "Myth and folktales" / William Hansen -- From expressive language to mythemes: meaning in mythic narratives / John H. McDowell -- David Bidney and the people of truth / Gregory Schrempp -- Germans and Indians in South America: ethnography and the idea of text / Lúcia Sá -- "Made from bone": trickster myths, musicality, and social constructions of history in Venezuelan Amazon / Jonathan D. Hill -- Native American reassessment and reinterpretation of myths / Barre Toelken -- Myth read as history: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga / John Lindow -- Myth and legendum in medieval and modern Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The west and the people with myth / Gordon Brotherston -- Myths of the rain forest/the rain forest as myth / Candace Slater -- Distempered demos: myth, metaphor, and U.S. political culture / Robert L. Ivie -- Imitation or reconstruction: how did Roman viewers experience mythological painting? / Eleanor W. Leach -- Mud and mythic vision: Hindu sculpture in modern Bangladesh / Henry Glassie -- Myth in historical perspective: the case of pagan deities in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies / R.D. Fulk -- Can myth be …