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The More of Myth

A Pedagogy of Diversion

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Mary Aswell Doll

    1. Savannah College of Art and Design, southern Ireland

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Part of the book series: Transgressions (TRANS, volume 68)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Myth as Psychological Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Strange Wombs

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 3-7

    3. The Eye in the Well of Memory

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 9-14

    4. The Living Stone

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 15-22

    5. The Monster as Other, as Self

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 23-31

  3. Myth as Ecological Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
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    2. The Breathing Bark

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 35-41

    3. Reading the Textured World

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 43-50

    4. Once Below A Time1

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 51-64

    5. Eco-Wisdom, or, Mind the Dog

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 65-69

    6. The More of Less

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 71-78

  4. Myth as Cosmological Pedagogy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Dance as Life Force

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 81-87

    3. Shape Shifting

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 89-97

    4. The Cosmic Mouth

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 99-106

    5. Old Myth/New Science

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 107-120

    6. Myth, the New “M” Theory of Education Offering Eleven Universes

      • Mary Aswell Doll
      Pages 121-137

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 139-154
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About this book

This book uses a nine-year experience of teaching world mythology to art students in order to discuss why and how such ancient stories provide significance today. Myth’s weird images and metaphors recall Wyrd (Word), the goddess of the cauldron. Students can be guided into the cauldron of mythic language to feel the stirring of new awareness of what it really means to be human. Psychologically, myth offers insights into family relations, memory, imagination, and otherness. Ecological insights from myth teach the connection among human-animal-plant relations and the organicism of all life forms. Cosmological insights from myth surprisingly echo findings in new science, with its emphasis on quantum mechanics, force fields, black holes, subatomic particles, chaos, and the possibilities of time travel. Two areas often considered completely opposite -- myth and science—actually reflect one another, since both propose theories, albeit in different ways. Myth cannot be laughed away as “mere” fabula, since, like science and psychology, it has long explored adventures into unseen, unknown worlds that yield necessary knowledge about the place of humans in the scheme of things big and small. The “more” of myth will be of interest to teachers and students of curriculum studies, to those seeking to go beyond Oedipus and Gutenberg, and to readers who know that all forms of life (including fingernails and rocks) are wondrous, diverse, alive, capable, purposive, and necessary.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Savannah College of Art and Design, southern Ireland

    Mary Aswell Doll

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The More of Myth

  • Book Subtitle: A Pedagogy of Diversion

  • Editors: Mary Aswell Doll

  • Series Title: Transgressions

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-445-4

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-445-4Published: 19 November 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2214-9732

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9740

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 154

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education

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