About this eBook
This volume offers eight approaches to myth, its uses and purposes, from viewing personal narrative as a form of healing myth to observing the atrocities committed daily arising from the most destructive form of myth. The authors of the eight chapters here note that myths have existed from the beginning of the human race in a myriad of forms and serving a myriad of functions. Indeed, the shared observation of these scholars is that humans have always been storytellers and always will be because myths are a part of the lives of every single person; they are the story of us.
About the author
Edmund P. Cueva is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA. He currently serves as the Chair of the department of Arts and Humanities at this institution.
Deborah Beam Shelley is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA. Her research interests are in the area of interpersonal communication and, in particular, myths and stereotypes about sex, love, and romance. She is currently applying Roland Barthes’ theory of how myths are changed to variations in fairy tales.
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