Myth and Method

by Wendy Doniger

Book Overview

In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood? In Myth and Method, a leading team of scholars assesses the current state of the study of myth and explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course between the comparative and the contextual issues raised in the last ten years. In confronting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813916577
• ISBN13: 9780813916576
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher