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The poetics of myth
Poėtika mifa. English
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- Creator
- by Eleazar M. Meletinsky ; translated by Guy Lanoue and Alexandre Sadetsky
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- English
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- New York : Garland Pub., 1998
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- xxii, 494 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780815321347, 0815321341
- OCLC
- ocm37141200
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-411) and indexes.
- Pt. I. Modern Theories of Myth and Approaches to Literature. Historical Overview. Remythification in Philosophy and in the Study of Culture. Ritualism and Functionalism. The French Sociological School. The Symbolic Theories. Analytical Psychology. Structuralism. Myth, Ritual, Archetypes, and Literary Criticism. Mythopoetics in Russian and Soviet Thought. Preliminary Conclusions -- Pt. II. The Classic Forms of Myth and Their Expression in Narrative Folklore. Preliminary Observations. The General Characteristics of Mythological Thought. The Functional Orientation of Myth. Mythical Time and Its Paradigms. Ancestors, Demiurges, Culture Heroes. Archaic Creation Myths. The Origins of Society. Chaos, Order, and the Creation of the Universe. The Cosmic Model. Seasonal Myths. Cosmic Cycles and the End of the Universe. Heroic Myths and Rites of Passage. The Semantics of Mythical Plots and Systems. Myth, Tale, Epic -- Pt. III. Mythification in Twentieth-Century Literature. Historical Introduction. The Mythological Novel in the Twentieth Century: Some Preliminary Observations. An Antithesis: Joyce and Mann. Kofka's Mythopoetics. Various Aspects of Mythification in the Contemporary Novel