{"product_id":"theorizing-myth-bruce-lincoln-9780226482026","title":"Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship","description":"In \u003ci\u003eTheorizing Myth, \u003c\/i\u003e Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of \"myth\" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe begins by showing that \u003ci\u003emythos\u003c\/i\u003e yielded to \u003ci\u003elogos\u003c\/i\u003e not as part of a (mythic) \"Greek miracle,\" but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy. Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth was recuperated as a privileged type of narrative, a process he locates in the political and cultural ferment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here, he connects renewed enthusiasm for myth to the nexus of Romanticism, nationalism, and Aryan triumphalism, particularly the quest for a language and set of stories on which nation-states could be founded. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the final section of this wide-ranging book, Lincoln advocates a fresh approach to the study of myth, providing varied case studies to support his view of myth--and scholarship on myth--as ideology in narrative form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226482022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226482026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.69d","brand":"Bruce Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946343727359,"sku":"9780226482026","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_dd5a1225-1d92-48e7-8ced-13732aa94248.jpg?v=1681512610","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/theorizing-myth-bruce-lincoln-9780226482026","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}