How to Do Things with Myths: A Performative Theory of Myths and How We Got There

By: Strenski, Ivan

How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of the author's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel "performative" theory of myth. Beginning from its mid-19th-century foundations with philologist, Friedrich Max Muller, myths had been conceived in textual terms as quasi-biblical, static narratives. Not until the impact of ethnographic studies of traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800504772
• ISBN13: 9781800504776
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Equinox Publishing
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.