This is a list of works cited in an essay entitled "On Myths and Sisyphean Tasks." An earlier version of this essay was appeared as the introduction to World Mythology: An Annotated Guide to Collections and Anthologies (Lanham, Md: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996.) If you have comments or suggestions about this material, you may contact Prof. Sienkewicz at toms@monm.edu.

Works Cited

Barth, John. Chimera. New York: Random House, 1972.

Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Choking Doberman and Other "New" Urban Legends. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.

Gill, William Wyatt. Myths and Songs from the South Pacific. London: Henry S. King, 1876. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1977.

Grinnell, George Bird. Blackfoot Lodge Tales: Stories of a Prairie People. New York: Scribner, 1892. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1962.

__________. By Cheyenne Campfires. 2nd ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1962. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971.

__________. The Cheyenne Indians, Their History and Ways of Life. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1923. Reprint. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1962.

__________. Pawnee, Blackfoot and Cheyenne. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900. Reprint, 1961.

__________. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales. New York: Forest and Stream Publishing, 1889. Reprint. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961.

Jung, Karl. Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. New York: Pantheon Books, 1959.

Malotki, Ekkehart, and Michael Lomatuway'ma. Hopi Coyote Tales. Istutuwutsi. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.

_________. Maasaw: Profile of a Hopi God. Vol. 11 in American Tribal Religions. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

__________. Stories of Maasaw, a Hopi God. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

Parsons, Elsie Clews. Kiowa Tales. Vol. 22 in Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1929.

__________. Taos Tales. Vol. 34 in Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. Philadelphia: American Folk-Lore Society, 1940. Reprint. New York: Kraus Reprint, 1969.

__________. Tewa Tales. Vol. 19 in Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society. New York: American Folk-Lore Society, 1926.

Radin, Paul. Some Myths and Tales of the Ojibwa of Southeastern Ontario. Memoir 48 of the Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey. Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1914.

__________. The Trickster. A Study in American Indian Mythology. New York: Greenwood Press, 1969.

Raglan, Lord (Fitzroy Richard Somerset, fourth Baron Raglan). The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama. London: Methuen, 1936. 2nd ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

Saxton, Dean, and Lucille Saxton. O'othham Hoho'ok A'agitha. Legends and Lore of the Papago and Pima Indians. Tucson: University of Arizona Pres, 1973.



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