How to Do Things with Myths: A Performative Theory of Myths and How We Got There

How to Do Things with Myths assembles a radically updated collection of the author’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-19th-century foundations, myths had been conceived in textual terms as quasi-biblica