Myth and Language / Albert Cook.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1980Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©1980Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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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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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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