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Modern Myth Theories Chart
 

INTERNALIST tendencies

EXTERNALIST tendencies

 

1700s -- Enlightenment and Response

 

Fontenelle (1657-1757)

Hume (1711-1776)

 

 

Heyne (1729-1812)

Herder (1744-1803)

 

1800s -- The Search for Origins

               Jacob Grimm (1785-1863)

 

Nature Myth

Max Müller.(1823-1900)

   

1900s -- The Search for Universals

Functionalism

Malinowski (1884-1942)

Psycho-analysis

Freud (1856-1939)

 
 

Myth and Ritual

Harrison (1850-1928)

Socio-biology

Burkert (1931-)

Structuralism

Lévi-Strauss (1908- )

Semiotics and Post-Structuralism

Barthes (1915-80)

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