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Main Author: Cook, Albert, 1925-1998
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1980.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sprache
Mythos
Mythologie
Myth.
Language and languages.
Greek literature.
Folk literature.
Litterature populaire > Histoire et critique.
Litterature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Langage et langues.
Mythe.
Folk literature > History and criticism.
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Levi-Strauss, Claude.
Griechenland > Altertum
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The social context: Levi-Strauss, myth, and the neolithic revolution
  • The large phases of myth
  • pt. 2. The classical example: Heraclitus and the conditions of utterance
  • Pindar: "Great deeds of prowess are always many-mythed"
  • Inquiry: Herodotus
  • Ovid: the dialectics of recovery from atavism
  • pt. 3. Elementary forms: Between prose and poetry: the speech and silence of the proverb
  • Between myth and proverb: the self-enclosure of the riddle
  • Parable
  • Metaphor: literature's access to myth
  • Language and myth.

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