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2001•Journal of the American Oriental SocietyRequires access

Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

G. B., Bruce Lincoln

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Part 1 Mythos among the Greeks: the prehistory of mythos and logos from Homer through Plato. Part 2 A modern history of myth: the history of myth from the Renaissance to World War II Sir William's myth of origins Nietzsche's Blond Beast - a genealogy Dumezil's German war God. Part 3 New directions: from World War II to the present (and possibly a little beyond) Plutarch's Siby Gautrek's saga and the gift fox once again, the Bovine's Lament the Pandits and Mr Jones epilogue - scholarship as myth.

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Part 1 Mythos among the Greeks: the prehistory of mythos and logos from Homer through Plato. Part 2 A modern history of myth: the history of myth from the Renaissance to World War II Sir William's myth of origins Nietzsche's Blond Beast - a genealogy Dumezil's German war God. Part 3 New directions: from World War II to the present (and possibly a little beyond) Plutarch's Siby Gautrek's saga and the gift fox once again, the Bovine's Lament the Pandits and Mr Jones epilogue - scholarship as myth.

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Part 1 Mythos among the Greeks: the prehistory of mythos and logos from Homer through Plato. Part 2 A modern history of myth: the history of myth from the Renaissance to World War II Sir William's myth of origins Nietzsche's Blond Beast - a genealogy Dumezil's German war God. Part 3 New directions: from World War II to the present (and possibly a little beyond) Plutarch's Siby Gautrek's saga and the gift fox once again, the Bovine's Lament the Pandits and Mr Jones epilogue - scholarship as myth.

Key concepts: Scholarship, Ideology, Mythology, Narrative, Sociology, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Literature

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