Mythic Narrative Patterns

Mythic Narrative Patterns is a recurring structural and thematic framework in narrative discourse that organizes stories according to archetypal motifs, symbolic configurations, and cosmological ideals characteristic of mythic thought within and across cultural traditions.

400

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16.3K

Citations

551

Authors

166

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Comparative Narrative Studies

Children

Cosmic BattleCulture-bringer MythDivine Punishment MythDivine QuestEschatological MythPromethean MythRenewal MotifSerpentine ChaoskampfShadow DoubleShamanic Journey

Publications

400

Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

G. B., Bruce Lincoln · Journal of the American Oriental Society · 2001 · 554 citations

Humanities, Classics, History +16

Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives

Ara Norenzayan, Scott Atran, Jason Faulkner et al. · Cognitive Science · 2006 · 385 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +9

Super heroes: a modern mythology

Choice Reviews Online · 1994 · 336 citations

Humanities, Literature, Mythology +12

News and Nuances of the Entrepreneurial Myth and Metaphor: Linguistic Games in Entrepreneurial Sense–Making and Sense–Giving

Louise Nicholson, Alistair R. Anderson · Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice · 2005 · 318 citations · Full text

Humanities, Entrepreneurship, Sociology +17

Six Guns and Society: A Structural Study of the Western.

George A. Huaco, W. D. Wright · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1976 · 248 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, Film Studies +13

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Authors

551

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Bruce Lincoln
University of Chicago, United States
5 publications · 658 citations
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Paul M. Gaston
University of Virginia, United States
4 publications · 167 citations
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Edmund Leach
The King's College, United States
4 publications · 351 citations
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J. D. Lewis‐Williams
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
3 publications · 83 citations
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Nachman Ben‐Yehuda
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
3 publications · 143 citations
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Institutions

166

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Venues

Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 41 publications · 2.6K citations
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Journal of American Folklore
JAF · 10 publications · 260 citations
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American Literature
7 publications · 269 citations
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The Classical World
6 publications · 208 citations
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PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
5 publications · 111 citations
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