Mythologies and all that sort of thing...

Rocker

Interesting article: http://www.tnt-audio.com/adeste/myths_e.html

Applies to everything of course.

BigLicks67

Yep, I did this on my degree course many moons ago, he was also keen on the idea that the 'author was dead' and that you could interpret literature any way you saw fit. I remember one guy walking out of a lecture because he couldn't stand the idea that the author's biography was unimportant.