Editor: Thomas A. Sebeok
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Midland Book Edition)
Publication Date: 1958 (Sixth Printing, 1974)
Format: Softcover, 361 pages
Condition: Very Good. Clean pages, tight binding. Light shelf wear with minor rubbing and faint crease along the spine. Previous price mark on the cover.
Description:
This important anthology, edited by renowned linguist and semiotician Thomas A. Sebeok, brings together influential essays on the role of myth in human culture. Contributors include David Bidney, Richard M. Dorson, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Dorothy Eggan, Lord Raglan, Stanley Edgar Hyman, Philip Wheelwright, and Stith Thompson. The collection addresses fundamental questions about myth’s origins, functions, and continuing importance, covering themes such as symbolism, ritual, dreams, metaphor, and folklore.
Originally published in 1955, this volume remains a foundational resource in folklore, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative literature. It is widely cited in the study of structuralism and symbolic thought.