Theories of Mythology provides students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most elementary form of narrative.
Both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth.
Introduces the major theories of myth from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Covers comparative approaches, psychoanalysis, ritual theories of myth, structuralism, and ideological analysis.
Supplies readers with the theoretical tools for...
Theories of Mythology provides students with both a history of theories of myth and a practical 'how-to' guide to interpreting myth, the most e...
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre - rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy - serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c). For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By...
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre - rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democra...
