Author: John FiskePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Myths and Myths-makers
Author: John FiskeMyths and Myth-makers
Author: John FiskeMyths and Myth-Makers
Author: John FiskePublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5874363548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Myths and Myth-makers
Author: John FiskeMyths and myth-makers
Author: John FiskePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Myths and Myth-makers. Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
Author: John FiskePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385548756
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Plato the Myth Maker
Author: Luc BrissonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226075198
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
We think of myth as a fictional story, and Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. But Plato also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the first part of Plato the Myth Maker, Luc Brisson reconstructs Plato's multifaceted and not uncritical description of muthos in light of the latter's famous Atlantis story. The second part of the book contrasts this sense of myth, as Plato does, with another form of speech that he believed was far superior: the logos of philosophy. Appearing for the first time in English, Plato the Myth Maker is a solid and important contribution to the history of myth, based on the privileged testimony of one of its most influential critics and supporters.
Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
Author: FiskeMyths and Myth-makers
Author: John FiskeMyths and Myth-Makers
Author: John FiskePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske is a textbook about comparative mythology providing insight into prejudice and human nature. Excerpt: "IN publishing this somewhat rambling and unsystematic series of papers, in which I have endeavored to touch briefly upon a great many of the most important points in the study of mythology, I think it right to observe that, to avoid confusing the reader with intricate discussions, I have sometimes cut the matter short, expressing myself with dogmatic definiteness where a skeptical vagueness might perhaps have seemed more becoming. In treating popular legends and superstitions, the paths of inquiry are circuitous enough, and seldom can we reach a satisfactory conclusion until we have traveled around Robin Hood's barn and back again."