Welsh Mythology: A Neo-Structuralist Analysis

by Jonathan Miles-Watson

A little-known lecture by L?vi-Strauss is the inspiration for this work. In this lecture, he intuitively suggested that in medieval Europe there once existed a set of myths, centred on the grail, which are structurally the opposite of the goatsucker myths that he famously analyzed in his mythologiques series. This work uses L?vi-Strauss' inspirational lecture as a launchpad for an exploration of a group of related medieval Welsh myths, two of which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604976209
• ISBN13: 9781604976205
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"