How to Do Things with Myths
Ivan Strenski
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How to Do Things with Myths

A Performative Theory of Myths and How We Got There

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How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of Ivan Strenski's oft-cited publications on myth. Together, they tell how theories of myth have changed and led to a novel "performative" theory of myth. Beginning from its mid-nineteenth-century foundations with philologist Friedrich Max Müller, the study of myths had been conceived in textual terms as quasi-biblical, static narratives. Not until the advent of ethnographic studies in the early twentieth century did myths come to be regarded in situ as living agents shaping their societies, when French sociological critics,...