The modern construction of myth

Abstract

Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction One. From Fable to Myth Two. The Invention of Myth Three. The Contest Between Myth and Suspicion Four. Myth As an Aspect of Primitive Religion Five. The Role of Depth-Psychology in the Construction of Myth Six. The Modernist Contribution to the Construction of Myth Seven. Neo-Romantic Theories of the Mid-Century I: Myth As Mode of Thought and Language Eight. Neo-Romantic Theories of the Mid-Century II: Myth and Ritual in Quotidian Western Life Nine. Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology I: Malinowski, Boas, and Their Sphere of Influence Ten. Folkloristic Myth in Social Anthropology II: From Levi-Strauss to Withdrawal from Grand Theory Eleven. No Two-Headed Greeks: The Folkloristic Consensus in Classical Studies Twelve. Myth and Ideology Thirteen. Myth As Necessary Fiction Notes Works Cited Index