title: The Myth and Ritual Theory: An Anthology
author: Robert A. Segal
description: "Segal has tracked down those hard-to-locate gems from the classicsof the study of religion, literature, folklore and ethnology, andhas put them into historical and analytic perspective. There isnothing like it anywhere. A 'must' for the classroom." <i>IvanStrenski, University of California, Riverside</i> <br />
zlib_text: EX UBRIS 
  
  THEORIES OF 
  MYTH 
  From Ancient Israel and Greece 
  to Freud, Jung, Campbell, 
  and Levi-Strauss 
  Series Editor 
  ROBERT A. SEGAL 
  University of Lancaster 
  A GARLAND SERIES 
  
  Series Contents 
  1. PSYCHOLOGY AND MYTH 
  2. ANTHROPOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND MYTH 
  3. PHILOSOPHY, RELIGIOUS STUDIES, AND MYTH 
  4. LITERARY CRITICISM AND MYTH 
  5. RITUAL AND MYTH 
  Robertson Smith, Frazer, Hooke, and Harrison 
  6. STRUCTURALISM IN MYTH 
  Levi-Strauss, Barthes, Dumezil, and Propp 
  
  VOL U M E 
  PHILOSOPHY, 
  RELIGIOUS 
  STUDIES, 
  AND MYTH 
  Edited with introductions by 
  ROBERT A. SEGAL 
  University of Lancaster 
  GARLAND PUBLISHING, Inc. 
  New York & London 
  1996 
  
  Introductions copyright © 1996 Robert A. Segal 
  All rights reserved 
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 
  Philosophy, religious studies, and myth / edited with introductions 
  by Robert A. Segal. 
  p. cm. — (Theories of myth ; v. 3) 
  Includes bibliographical references. 
  ISBN 0-8153-2257-7 (alk. paper) 
  1. Myth. 2. Myth—Study and tea