The Jealous PotterAuthor :
Hardback
Published : Friday 15 April 1988
Description
As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Levi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. "Electrifying...A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action...Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us."--Jonathan Sharp, San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle "A characteristic tour de force...One remains awed by him."--Colin Thubron, Sunday Times "With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style."--Bernadette Bucher, American Ethnologist "[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas...Always a good read."--Choice "A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by Benedicte Chorier."--Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, New York Times Book Review
You may also like ...
by
Paperback
01 Dec 1996
Western philosophy from c 1800
€28.08
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Hardback
15 Apr 1988
Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
€93.60
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
09 Mar 2021
Childrens / Teenage general interest: History and the past
€5.84
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
by
Paperback
30 Oct 2017
Fashion and textile design
€26.85
Extended stock – Dispatch 5-7 days
Reviews