Myth a Symposium

By Sqbeok and Thomas A. Sebeok

Myth: A New Symposium offers a broad-based assessment of the present state of myth study. It was inspired by a revisiting of the influential mid-century work Myth: A Symposium (edited by Thomas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253200830
• ISBN13: 9780253200839
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

the history of the study of "mythology"

This collection of essay written about the study of mythology in the 1950s when the fairly young field of folklore was taking a good hard luck at its own history and development. The theories and ideas espoused in this collection are not to be understood as current trends in folklore and mythic studies but instead help us see how much or how little academic opinions have changed over the past several centuries. As such it is really only a book for the specialist or professional scholar.