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PHILOSOPHY OF CHINESE MYTHOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION 1527 especially the anthropology, linguistic and theory of literature and art, to have a new understanding of Chinese literature, to strike out a prototype for the incomplete brief and vague Chinese mythology material, and reconstruct the ancient Chinese mythology. COUPON: Rent Chinese Mythology An Introduction 1st edition (9780801861833) and save up to 80% on textbook rentals and 90% on used textbooks. Buy This Book. Chinese Mythology : An Introduction by Anne M. Birrell. Water-Of-Immortality Myths In Altaic And Japanese Cultures. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. By purchasing books through this website, you support our non-profit organization. Chinese Mythology : An Introduction (Book) : Birrell, Anne : Book NewsAncient Chinese mythology was both blessed and cursed by the absence of a Homer to petrify it into an eloquent literary form; instead it continued a living oral existence until only recently. the world of chinese mythology 29 forms. Publication Date. Chinese mythology : an introduction. Author. -- Asian Affairs" Hardcover. China, unlike ancient Greece and Rome, had no Homer or Ovid to retell its ancient myths in an eloquent literary record. Definitions of Myth -- Approaches to Chinese Myth -- The Comparative Method in the Study of Chinese Myth -- Modern Chinese and Japanese Studies of Chinese Myth -- The Nature of Chinese Mythic Narratives -- The Polyfunctionality of Myth as an Organizing Principle -- Future Research on Chinese Myth: A New Dimension -- 1. Get this from a library! From Frog To Nüwa And Back Again: The Religious Roots Of Creation Myths. 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