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* Preface
* Timeline
* PART I. INTRODUCTION TO STUDYING MYTH
* 1. What Is Myth?
* 2. Ways of Understanding Myth
* PART 2. MYTHS OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION
* 2A. Creation
* 3. Greece: Hesiod
* 4. Rome: Ovid (Creation)
* 5. The Bible: Genesis (Creation)
* 6. Mesopotamia: Enuma Elish
* 7. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Creation)
* 8. North America: Stories from the Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo
(Southwest); and from the Iroquois League (Northeastern Woodlands)
* 9. Africa: Uganda and Nigeria
* 10. China: Nü Kwa, Kuan Yin, and Monkey
* 11. Mesoamerica: Popol Vuh
* 2B. Destruction
* 12. Rome: Ovid (Flood)
* 13. The Bible: Genesis (Flood)
* 14. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Ragnarok)
* PART 3. HEROES AND TRICKSTERS
* 15. Theory: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Dave
Whomsley
* 16. Mesopotamia: The Epic of Gilgamesh
* 17. Applying Theory: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of the Epic of
Gilgamesh, G. S. Kirk
* 18. India: The Ramayana
* 19. Icelandic/Norse: Prose Edda (Heroes)
* 20. Arthurian Legend: The Holy Grail, Donna Lynne Rondolone
* 21. Africa: The Mwindo Epic
* 22. Greece: Oedipus the King , Sophocles
* 23. Theory: The Structural Study of Myth, Claude Lévi-Strauss
* 24. North America: Raven
* 25. African and African-American Trickster Stories
* 26. Greece: Prometheus
* 27. Applying Theory: Different Versions of Myths
* PART 4. RITUAL AND MYTH
* 28. Theory: The Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner
* 29. Greece: Demeter and Persephone
* 30. Egypt: Isis and Osiris
* 31. Applying Theory: Meals in the Bible, Mary Douglas
* 32. Icelandic/Norse: The Rituals of Iceland, H.R. Ellis Davidson
* 33. Greece: Heracles and Dionysus
* PART 5. DREAMS AND MYTH
* 34. Theory: Man and His Symbols, C.G. Jung
* 35. Applying Theory: How to Perform a Jungian Analysis
* PART 6. FOLKTALE AND MYTH
* 36. Theory: The Morphology of the Folktale, Vladimir Propp
* 37. Applying Theory: A Proppian Analysis of The Wizard of Oz
* 38. Germany: Grimms' Household Tales
* 39. Rome: "Cupid and Psyche," Apuleius
* 40. Applying Theory: Highlighting Different Aspects of the Same Tale
Using Multiple Analyses
* PART 7. CONTEMPORARY MYTH
* 41. Daniel Boone: Building the Myth around the Man, Richard Slotkin
* 42. Harry Potter: A Rankian Analysis of the Hero of Hogwarts, M.
Katherine Grimes
* 43. "Dark of the World, Shine on Us": Ryan Coogler's Black Panther
George Faithful
* PART 8. LITERATURE AND MYTH
* 44. Poetry and Myth
* 45. The Half-God of Rainfall: Classical and African Myth in an Epic
Poem Inua Ellams
* 46. "Yellow Woman": Native-American Oral Myth in a Contemporary
Context Leslie Marmon Silko
* 47. Narrative and Myth
* Glossary of Gods, Heroes, and Antiheroes
* Additional Works Cited
* Credits
* Index
