{"product_id":"the-jealous-potter-9780226474823","title":"The Jealous Potter","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Claude Lévi-Strauss | Benedicte Chorier\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Folklore \u0026amp; Mythology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs L�vi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, \"signification,\" and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. L�vi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and timeless myths that live on in all of us.\"--Jonathan Sharp, \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Examiner-Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A characteristic tour de force. . . . One remains awed by him.\"--Colin Thubron, \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With all its epistemological depth, the book reads at times like a Simenon or a Lewis Carroll, fusing concise methodology with mastery of style.\"--Bernadette Bucher, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[An] engagingly provocative exploration of mythology in the Americas. . . . Always a good read.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A playful, highly entertaining book, fluently and elegantly translated by B�n�dicte Chorier.\"--Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614760222871,"sku":"9780226474823","price":3494.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226474823.webp?v=1775096047","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-jealous-potter-9780226474823","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}