scholarly journals Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology. With Special Reference to the Recent Mythological Works of the Rt. Hon. Professor F. Max Müller and Mr. Andrew Lang. Robert Brown, Jr.

1900 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-151
Author(s):  
George A. Barton
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
Andrew Lang

scholarly journals II.—On Scientific Method in the Interpretation of Popular Myths, with special reference to Greek Mythology.

1870 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
Blackie
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Great Work ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theology And Philosophy

Of all the branches of interesting and curious learning, there is none which has been so systematically neglected in this country as mythology—a subject closely connected both with theology and philosophy, and on which those grand intellectual pioneers and architects, the Germans, have expended such a vast amount of profitable and unprofitable labour. The consequence of this neglect has been, that of the few British books we have on the subject, the most noticeable are not free from the dear seduction of favourite ideas, which possess the minds of the writers as by a juggling witchcraft, and prevent them from looking on a rich and various subject with that many-sided sympathy and catholic receptiveness which it requires. In fact, some of our most recent writers on this subject have not advanced a single step, in respect of scientific method, beyond Jacob Bryant, unquestionably the most learned and original speculator on mythology of the last century; but whose great work, nevertheless, can only be compared to a grand chase in the dark, with a few bright flashes of discovery, and happy gleams of suggestion by the way. For these reasons, and to make a necessary protest against some ingenious aberrations of Max Müller, Gladstone, Inman, and Cox in the method of mythological interpretation, I have undertaken to read the present paper; which, if it possess only the negative virtue of warning people to be sober-minded and cautious when entering on a path of so slippery inquiry, cannot be deemed impertinent at the present moment.

scholarly journals Hidden Meaning: Andrew Lang, H. Rider Haggard, Sigmund Freud, and Interpretation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Alexis Psomiades
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Max Müller ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Andrew Lang

This essay examines the role Andrew Lang played in the circulation of ideas within and among the fields of anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lang popularized anthropologist Edward Tylor’s theories about myth, and championed them against those of the philologist Max Müller. He provided the occasion for novelist H. Rider Haggard’s engagement with these ideas in the novel She, which Haggard dedicated to him, and he drew upon these theories of myth in essays that explain the value of Haggard’s novels. Finally, both Haggard’s novel and Lang’s anthropological writing shaped the work of Sigmund Freud. Attention to Lang’s role as a transmitter of the ideas of others across genres and disciplines allows us to see how central the problem of interpretation was to the disciplinary formation of anthropology, literature, and psychoanalysis.

scholarly journals A alegoria em J.R.R. Tolkien: entre as Ciências da Religião e a filosofia perene

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-138
Author(s):  
Diego Genu Klautau ◽  
Carlos Ribeiro Caldas Filho
Keyword(s):  
Max Müller ◽  
Andrew Lang

O ensaio On Fairy-Stories de J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) é resultado da conferência de 1939 para a Universidade de St. Andrews e revisado para publicação em 1947. Neste texto, Tolkien dialoga com duas figuras importantes para as Ciências da Religião, Max Müller (1823-1900) e Andrew Lang (1844-1912). O primeiro é um dos fundadores da ciência da religião, a partir de suas pesquisas em filologia, enfatizando as relações entre linguagem, mito e religião. O segundo foi antropólogo e folclorista, igualmente discutindo as relações entre mito e religião. Neste diálogo, Tolkien estabelece críticas a ambos, fundamentalmente relativas à concepção de alegoria, e indica uma proposta teórica que resgata elementos da filosofia perene, enfatizando elementos de Platão, Aristóteles, Agostinho e Tomás de Aquino.

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