Myth and mythmaking

9 of the essays were orig. pub. in Daedalus. Ed. and with an intro. by Henry A. Murray. LIBRARY USE ONLY.

1 The historical development of mythology - Joseph Campbell. 2 Recurrent themes in myths and mythmaking - Clyde Kluckhohn. 3 The yearning for paradise in primitive tradition - Mircea Eliade. 4 Theories of myth and the folklorist - Richard M. Dorson. 5 Stars and stories - Phyllis Ackerman. 6 Some meanings of myth - Harry Levin. 7 New directions from old - Northrop Frye. 8 An examination of the myth and ritual approach to Shakespeare - Herbert Weisinger. 9 The working novelist and the mythmaking process - Andrew Lytle. 10 World interpretation and self-interpretation: some basic patterns - Ernst Topitsch. 11 The three Romes: the migration of an ideology and the making of an autocrat - Robert Lee Wolff. 12 The myth of Nazism - Henry Hatfield. 13 The world impact of the West: the mystique and the sense of participation in history - John T. Marcus. 14 A modern mythmaker - Philip Rieff. 15 Myth and identity - Jerome S. Bruner. 16 Myth and mass media - Marshall McLuhan. 17 The possible nature of a "mythology" to come - Henry A. Murray. Appendix. 1 The necessity of myth - Mark Schorer. 2 Reflections on violence - Serges Sorel. 3 Doctor Faustus - Thomas Mann. 4 Freud and the future - Thomas Mann

'The result [of a preliminary symposium on myth under the auspices of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 1958] was the 1959 Spring issue of Daedalus, entitled "Myth and Mythmaking"....The number of favorable responses to this issue of Daedalus was deemed sufficient warrant for its presentation in book form to a larger public, particularly since there was some reason to believe that certain other scholars had compositions cooking in their ovens which, if finished and offered in the near future, would fit nicely into a few of the conspicuously vacant places and give the book a greater amplitude.'

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