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The World of Myth
Oxford University Press, USA 1991; US$ 18.99Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its... more...
Jealous Gods and Chosen People
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 19.99Leeming provides a comprehensive study of the mythologies of the eastern Mediterranean world - the Middle East, the Near East, the Levant, and the Fertile Crescent. more...
From Olympus to Camelot
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 39.99From the stories suggested by the great cave paintings of the Paleolithic period to the thought experiments of modern scientists, From Olympus to Camelot provides a sweeping history of the development of the rich and varied European mythological tradition. David Leeming, an authority on world mythology, begins with a general introduction to mythology... more...
Stephen Spender
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 7.99The first critical biography of one of the twentieth century's towering literary figures. Stephen Spender was a minor poet, but a major cultural influence during much of the century. Literary critic, journalist, art critic, social commentator, and friendend of the best-known cultural figures of the modernist and postmodernist periods (Yeats, Woolf,... more...
Mythology
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 18.99Third revised edition, previously published in 1973 by Harper Collins, of a collection of texts stressing the universal themes of mythology. They range from the Bible to English literature, to C Jung and others, to illustrate the archetypal aspects of the universal hero. This edition includes heroine myths and an updated bibliography. more...
Creation Myths of the World: An Encyclopedia
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 180.00The most comprehensive resource available on creation myths from around the world?their narratives, themes, motifs, similarities, and differences?and what they reveal about their cultures of origin. more...
Gods, Heroes, & Kings
Oxford University Press 2004; US$ 39.99This book unearths the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths on which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled. more...
Gods, Heroes, and Kings
Oxford University Press, USA 2001; US$ 26.99The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the... more...
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