Robert A. Segal

• Apr-1990
• / General Fiction
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• May-2000
• / Fantasy
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This Reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical a...

• Aug-2000
• / Fantasy
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• Oct-2004
• / Fantasy
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A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strauss, C. G. Jung, and Sigmund Freud. It focuses on different approaches to myth, from all of the m...

• Oct-2020
• / Fantasy
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Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities. This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, ant...

• / Fantasy
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"For two hundred years the subject of myth-its origin, function, and significance-has been addressed again and again, first by theologians and philosophers and then by anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists. From the outset the topic has sp...