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0.31 Jerome Rothenberg, The Structural Study of Myth, boundary 2, 1975.
0.31 Douglas R. Parks Raymond J. De Mallie, Plains Indian Native Literatures, boundary 2, 1992.
0.29 Claude Bremond J. Christopher Crocker, The Clandestine Ox: The Transformations of an African Tale, New Literary History, 1977.
0.24 Claude Lévi-Strauss F. C. T. Moore, How Myths Die, New Literary History, 1974.
0.21 William Powers, When Black Elk Speaks Everybody Listens, Social Text, 1990.
0.20 Bernard Faure, The Buddhist Icon and the Modern Gaze, Critical Inquiry, 1998.
0.20 Elaine A. Jahner, Transitional Narratives and Cultural Continuity, boundary 2, 1992.
0.19 Robert Maniura, Persuading the Absent Saint: Image and Performance in Marian Devotion, Critical Inquiry, 2009.
0.18 Louis Marin, Puss-in Boots: Power of Signs Signs of Power, Diacritics, 1977.
0.17 Jack Zipes, The Potential of Liberating Fairy Tales for Children, New Literary History, 1982.
0.16 Sylvie Debevec Henning, The Ritual Im-Plications of Les Bonnes, boundary 2, 1982.
0.16 Aleksandr Nikolaevich Veselovskii, "Istoricheskaia Poetika" ("A Historical Poetics") Chapter 1 Section 8, New Literary History, 2001.
0.15 Tina Barr, Divine Politics: Virginia Woolf's Journey toward Eleusis in To the Lighthouse, boundary 2, 1993.
0.14 Thomas O'Donnell, Polemic, Diacritics, 1972.
0.14 Sol Yurick, Faust's Stages of Spiritual/Economic Growth and Takeoff into Transcendence, Social Text, 1987.
0.14 Karl Kroeber, Unaesthetic Imaginings: Native American Myth as Speech Genre, boundary 2, 1996.
0.14 Marshall Sahlins, Infrastructuralism, Critical Inquiry, 2010.
0.14 Lee R. Edwards, The Labors of Psyche: Toward a Theory of Female Heroism, Critical Inquiry, 1979.
0.14 D. I. Grossvogel, Under the Sign of Symbols: Losey and Hartley, Diacritics, 1974.
0.13 Susan Stewart, Genres of Work: The Folktale and "Silas Marner", New Literary History, 2003.
0.13 Michael Taussig, The Corn-Wolf: Writing Apotropaic Texts, Critical Inquiry, 2010.
0.13 Andras Sandor, Myths and the Fantastic, New Literary History, 1991.
0.12 Albert Wendt, In the Barber's Chair, boundary 2, 1994.
0.12 Allogan Slagle, The Native-American Tradition and Legal Status: Tolowa Tales and Tolowa Places, Cultural Critique, 1987.
0.12 Jarold Ramsey, Francis LaFlesche's "The Song of Flying Crow" and the Limits of Ethnography, boundary 2, 1992.
0.12 Victor Turner, Social Dramas and Stories about Them, Critical Inquiry, 1980.
0.12 Wendy Olmsted, On the Margins of Otherness: Metamorphosis and Identity in Homer Ovid Sidney and Milton, New Literary History, 1996.
0.12 A. Poulin_ Jr., The Angels of Reincarnation, boundary 2, 1978.
0.12 Kevin Power, Poland/1931: Pack up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag & Smile Smile Smile from Diaspora to Galut, boundary 2, 1975.
0.12 Hollis Robbins, The Emperor's New Critique, New Literary History, 2003.
0.12 J. Hillis Miller, What Do Stories about Pictures Want?, Critical Inquiry, 2008.
0.11 Sid Marty, Coyote's Feast, boundary 2, 1974.
0.11 Marcel Detienne Anne Doueihi, Apollo's Slaughterhouse, Diacritics, 1986.
0.11 Yannis Ritsos N. C. Germanakos, The Maiden, boundary 2, 1972.
0.11 Adam Herring, Shimmering Foundation: The Twelve-Angled Stone of Inca Cusco, Critical Inquiry, 2010.
0.11 Bert O. States, The Persistence of the Archetype, Critical Inquiry, 1980.
0.10 Pierre Vidal-Naquet Janet Lloyd, Atlantis and the Nations, Critical Inquiry, 1992.
0.10 Marc Chénetier, Metamorphoses of the Metamorphoses: Patricia Eakins Wendy Walker Don Webb, New Literary History, 1992.
0.10 Charles Segal, Naming Truth and Creation in the Poetics of Pindar, Diacritics, 1986.