Peasant Customs and Savage Myths
Author | : Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 751 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Author | : Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 751 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Author | : Richard M. Dorson |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1968 |
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Author | : Richard Mercer Dorson |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Customs |
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Author | : Richard Mercer Dorson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : Bruce Jackson |
Publisher | : Documentary Research |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Jason A. Josephson-Storm |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2017-05-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 022640353X |
This study of the early human sciences and their deep connections to spiritualism dispenses with the myth that separates magic and modernity. Many theorists contend that the defining feature of modernity is our collective loss of faith in spirits, myths, and magic. But in The Myth of Disenchantment, Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues against this narrative, showing that attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than not. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. He demonstrates that the founding figures of these “mythless” disciplines were in fact profoundly enmeshed in the occult and spiritualist revivals of Britain, France, and Germany. It was in response to this milieu that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
Author | : Richard M. Dorson |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780415204262 |
This set re-issues classic works on folklore by Richard M. Dorson which trace the historical development of the idea of folklore from the sixteenth century to the First World War. The set also brings together theoretical writings from some of the most influential folklorists. The following titles are reprinted here: The British Folklorists0-415-20476-3 Here Dorson explores the early origins of the folklore movement which became prominent in the Victorian period, but which originated in the sixteenth century. He shows how the influence of folklore extended to literature, history, the classics, archaeology, philology, physical research and legal and medical antiquities. Peasant Customs and Savage Myths, Volume I: 0-415-20477-1 and Volume II: 0-415-20478-X These two companion volumes bring together the theoretical writings of some of the most brilliant folklorists, including Andrew Lang, Sidney Hartland, George Laurence Gomme, Alfred Nutt and Joseph Jacobs. The subjects they discuss range from the origin and dispersion of the Aryans to the animistic philosophy of 'savages' and the survivals of primitive beliefs among peasants.George Laurence Gomme, Alfred Nutt and Joseph Jacobs. The subjects they discuss range from the origin and dispersion of the Aryans to the animistic philosophy of 'savages' and the survivals of primitive beliefs among peasants.
Author | : Burton Feldman |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2000-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780253201881 |
A book on modern mythology
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1884 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Carole G. Silver |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2000-10-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195349377 |
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.