Structuralism in Myth: Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Dumézil, and ProppRobert Alan Segal First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
Contents
Myth Today | 1 |
The Meaning of Myth with Special Reference | 31 |
The Documents | 53 |
The Three Functions | 60 |
An Examination | 88 |
An Evaluation on His Seventieth Birthday | 100 |
The Structural Study of Myth | 118 |
The Story of Asdiwal | 135 |
Myths from Roland Barthes | 203 |
Structure and History in the Study of the Fairy Tale | 219 |
An Essay in Structural Analysis | 247 |
The Black Hunter and the Origin of the Athenian Ephebeia | 277 |
An Inquiry | 299 |
LéviStrauss and Beyond | 315 |
Acknowledgments 331 | |
The Comparative IndoEuropean Mythology | 183 |
Common terms and phrases
analysis ancient animals anthropology appear Asdiwal Asdiwal's autochthonous Barthes Boas bylina called candlefish concept criticism culture death Dialis dike divine Dumézil earth Edmund Leach elements ephebe example fact fairy tale FGrHist Fipa flamen flamen Dialis flamen Quirinalis folklore folktale French imperiality Genesis genre Georges Dumézil gods Greek heroes Hesiod hoplite hubris human hunting Indo-European interpretation Jupiter kind king krypteia Laïos language Lévi Lévi-Strauss linguistic literary logical loins magic marriage Mars matrilocal meaning mediator method Milansi myth mythical mythology narrative Nass nature Oedipus Oedipus myth opposition origin patrilocal residence plot priests Propp Quirinus race of bronze race of gold race of silver reality relation ritual Roman semiological system signifier Skeena social society story structure study of myth symbolic theory tion triad tripartite Tsimshian variants warrior Waux wife young Zeus