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Title |
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Conceptual Problems for Robert A. Segal and Jonathan Z. Smith - How to Do Things with Myths |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Ivan Strenski; University of California Riverside (retired); |
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Subject |
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Religious Studies; Ethnography; Anthropology; Cultural Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
myth; Friedrich Max Müller; Robert A. Segal; Jonathan Z. Smith; psychoanalytic; Freud; Jung; The Golden Bough; Frazer; Levi-Strauss; incongruity |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Myth |
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Description |
Abstract |
Major scholars of myth, Segal and Smith, continue Müller’s essentially textualist and literary conception of myths. This leads to Segal and Smith stumbling into a series of conceptual problems. Segal finds difficulty both resisting defining ‘myth,” but then also needing to use in the sense of “significant” and “weighty” stories. Likewise resisting recommendations of any theory of myth, Segal concludes in fact preferring psychoanalytic theories of myth, derived mostly from Freud and Jung. Smith began as a student of Frazer’s The Golden Bough, a magnum opus in textual conceptions of myth. While Smith soon abandoned Frazer, his orientation toward Lévi-Strauss often reveals an ongoing Trickster’s attachment to incongruous literary memes like “incongruity.” |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Jul-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44973 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.44973 |
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Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; How to Do Things with Myths |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |