Myth and Language /
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
1980.
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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.