The Magic Mirror: Myth's Abiding Power

State University of New York Press (1996)
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Analyzes the theories of myth of Cassirer, Barthes, Eliade, and Hillman and offers an alternative original account of myth-making as an essential strand of cultural production

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0791430928   9780791430910   079143091X   9780791430927

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10.1023/a:1005398724733
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