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Performative Mythology Bibliography

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Avens, Robert, Imaginal Body: Para-Jungian Reflections on Soul, Imagination and Death Washington D.C. UP of America, 1982.

Barba, Eugenio and Nicola Savarese, A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer London: Routledge, 1991.

Berman, Morris, The Reenchantment of the World Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981.

--Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Blake, William, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake David V. Erdman ed., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Bohm, David, Wholeness and the Implicate Order London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1980.

Bly, Robert, Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.

--American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity New York: Harper & Row, 1990.

--Iron John: A Book About Men Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1990.

--The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men  Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade ed., New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

--ed., The Soul is Here for its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 1995.

--The Sibling Society Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.

--and Marion Woodman, The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1998.

--Eating the Honey of Words: New and Selected Poems, New York: HarperFlamingo, 1999.

Bringhurst, Robert, The Calling: Selected Poems 1970-1995 Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1995.

--trans. Nine Visits to the Mythworld: Ghandl of the Qayahl  Llaanas, Masterworks of the Classical Haida Mythtellers, vol. 2, Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 2000.

Campbell, Joseph, Primitive Mythology  The Masks of God, vol. I, New York: Penguin Arkana, 1968.

--Creative Mythology The Masks of God, vol. IV, New York: Penguin Arkana, 1968.

--The Flight of the Wild Gander South Bend, IN: Regency / Gateway, Inc., 1979.

--Part 1: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers Historical Atlas of World Mythology, vol. 1, The Way of the Animal Powers, New York: Perennial Library, Harper & Row, 1988.

--Part 2: Mythologies of the Great Hunt Historical Atlas of World Mythology, vol. 1: The Way of the Animal Powers, New York: Perennial Library, Harper & Row, 1988.

Chevalier, Jean, Alain Gheerbrant The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols John Buchanan-Brown trans., London: Penguin Books, 1996.

Cirlot, J. E, A Dictionary of Symbols Jack Sage trans., New York: Barnes & Noble, 1995.

D'Aquili, Eugene G., Charles D. Laughlin, Jr., John McManus, with Tom Burns, Barbara Lex, G. Ronald Murphy S.J., and W. John Smith The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis New York: Colombia UP, 1979.

Diamond, Stanley, In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1974.

Doniger, Wendy, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth New York: Columbia UP, 1998.

Doty, William G., Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals  2^nd ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000.

--and William J. Hynes Mythical Trickster Figures: Contours, Contexts, and Criticisms Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1993.

Eliade, Mircea, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return Willard R. Trask trans., New York: Harper Torchbooks, Harper & Brothers, 1954.

--The Sacred and the Profane: the Nature of Religion Willard R. Trask, trans., San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1957.

--Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy Willard R. Trask trans., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964.

--From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries Willard R. Trask trans., A History of Religious Ideas, vol. 1 Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Emigh, John, Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.

Erdoes, Richard, and Alfonso Ortiz, American Indian Trickster Tales New York: Penguin, 1998.

Estes, Clarissa Pinkola, Women Who Run with the Wolves New York: Balantine Books, 1992.

Feldman, Burton and Robert D. Richardson ed., The Rise of Modern Mythology 1680-1860 Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1972.

Ford, Clyde W., The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa New York: Bantam, 1999.

Gardner, Howard Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences New York: BasicBooks, HarperCollins, 1983.

--Creating Minds: An Anatomy of Creativity Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi New York: BasicBooks, HarperCollins, 1993.

Gardner, John, John Maier Gilgamesh: Translated from the Sin-leqi-unninni Version New York: Vintage Books, 1984.

Giegerich, Wolfgang, The Soulâ&™s ™s Logical Life: Towards a Rigorous Notion of Psychology Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 1998.

Girardot, N. J., Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (hun-tun) Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Graves, Robert The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf, The Old Fool and the Corruption of Myth  Dorothea Wilson trans., Dallas, Texas: Spring Publications, 1991.

Hatab, Lawrence J., Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of  Truths La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1990.

Highwater, Jamake, The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Hillman, James, The Thought of the Heart & the Soul of the World Dallas: Spring Publications, Inc. 1981, 1982.

--The Dream and the Underworld New York: Harper&Row, 1979.

Hyde, Lewis, The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property New York: Vintage Books, 1979.

--Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Kane, Sean, Wisdom of the Mythtellers Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1994.

Lord, Albert B., The Singer of Tales Stephen Mitchell & Gregory Nagy, ed., Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2000.

MacKillop, James, Dictionary of Celtic Mythology Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998.

Maier, John, ed., Gilgamesh: A Reader Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 1997.

Matthews, Caitlin and John The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom: The Celtic Shaman's Sourcebook Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1994.

Matthews, John, Taliesin: Shamanism and the Bardic Mysteries in Britain and Ireland London: Aquarian/HarperCollins, 1991.

--The Song of Taliesin: Stories and Poems from the Books of the Broceliande London: The Aquarian Press, HarperColins, 1991.

McNeely, Deldon Anne, Mercury Rising: Women, Evil and the Trickster Gods Woodstock, CT: Spring Publications, 1996.

Meade, Michael, Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.

Miller, David L. Hells & Holy Ghosts: A Theopoetics of Christian Belief Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

Newberg, M.D., Andrew, Eugene dâ&™Aq™Aquili, M.D., Ph.D., and Vince Rause Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science & the Biology of Belief New York: Ballantine, 2001.

Paul, Sherman, In Search of the Primitive: Rereading David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, and Gary Snyder Baton Rouge: State University Press, 1986.

Pelton, Robert D., The Trickster in West Africa: A Study of Mythic Irony and Sacred Delight Berkeley: U of California P, 1980.

Radin, Paul The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology New York: Shocken Books, 1956.

Rilke, Rainer Maria, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke: A Translation from the German with Commentary by Robert Bly New York: Perennial Library, Harper & Row,1981.

Roberts, John W., From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1989.

Rothenberg, Jerome, PRE-FACES & Other Writings New York: New Directions, 1981.

--& Dian Rothenberg, ed., Symposium of the Whole Berkeley: U of California P, 1983.

--Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe & Oceania 2^nd ed. Berkeley: U of California P, 1985.

--and Pierre Joris, ed., Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry  Volume One: From Fin-de-Siecle to Negritude, Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

--and Pierre Joris Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry Volume Two: From Postwar to Millennium, Berkeley: U of California P, 1998.

Sansonese, J. Nigro, The Body of Myth: Mythology, Shamanic Trance, and the Geography of the Body Rochester: Inner Traditions, 1994.

Schechner, Richard, Performance Theory New York: Routledge, 1977.

--and Willa Appel, ed., By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual Cambridge: Cambridge U P, 1990.

--The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and  Performance London: Routledge, 1993.

Scheub, Harold, A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.

Sheldrake, Rupert, The Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance & the Habits of Nature Rochester: Park Street Press, 1988.

Some, Malidoma Patrice, Ritual: Power, Healing and Community Portland: Swan Raven & Company, 1993.

Stafford, William, The Way It Is Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1997.

Strenski, Ivan, Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History: Cassirer, Eliade, Lévi-Strauss and Malinowski Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1987.

Taggart, James, The Bear and His Sons: Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Taussig, Michael, Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987.

--The Nervous System New York: Routledge, 1992.

Thompson, William Irwin,, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality & the Origins of Culture New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981.

--Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989.

Tucker, Michael, Dreaming With Open Eyes: The Shamanic Spirit in Twentieth Century Art and Culture London: Aquarian/HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.

Turner, Mark, The Literary Mind New York: Oxford, 1996.

Turner, Victor, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual Ithaca: Cornell U P, 1967.

--The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1969.

--The Anthropology of Performance New York: PAJ Publications, 1987.

Tzu, Lao, Tao Te Ching: A Book About The Way and the Power of The Way Ursula K. Le Guin, trans., Boston: Shambhala, 1997.

Wallin, Nils L., Biomusicology: Neurophysiological, Neuropsychological, and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Origins and Purposes of Music Stuyvesant, NY: Pendragon Press, 1991

--Wallin, Bjiorn Merker, and Steven Brown, ed. The Origins of Music Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2000.

Wilson, Edward O., On Human Nature Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978.

--Biophilia Cambridge: Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984.

White, David Gordon Myths of the Dog-Man Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. 

Young, Jonathan ed., Saga: Best New Writings on Mythology vol. I, Ashland, Oregon: White Cloud Press, 1996.

Zimmer, Heinrich The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil Joseph Campbell trans. ed., New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1956.