1st Edition
Geomythology How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events
By Timothy J. Burbery
Copyright 2021
118 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
118 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
118 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky—such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look. It turns out that these and similar tales, which originated in pre-literate societies, contain surprisingly accurate, pre-scientific intuitions... Read more
Introduction: What is Geomythology?
1 Universal Geomyths, Part I
2 Universal Geomyths, Part II
3 Regional Geomyths
4 The Futures of Geomythology
Biography
Timothy J. Burbery received his Ph.D. in English, English Renaissance Literature, from Stony Brook University, in 1997. He is currently Professor of English at Marshall University, where he teaches, among other subjects, Shakespeare, scientific and technical writing, science fiction, and ecocriticism/literary theory.
