Bücher der Reihe Theorists of Myth

This is an interesting study with a great deal of information on Eliade's main themes and a detailed account of his understanding of myth.

The only book that described the origins and rise of myth-and-ritual literary criticism.

Frye differed from other theorists of myth in tracing the major literary genres-romance,comedy, satire, not just tragedy-to myth and ritual. This is the most thorough presentation of his thinking.

Myth theorists characterise myths as stories that possess the status of sacred truth within one or more social groups. Flood discusses how political myth is an ideologically marked narrative, widely accepted as valid in its essentials.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Steven Walker carefully leads the reader through the essential lines of thought in Jungian psychology before developing his method for using Jungian ideas to approach mythological texts.