Theorizing Myth
Subtitle: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780226482019
Subjects: Folklore; Literary theory; Myths & mythology; Mythology; Social Science; Sociology; Religion; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; Social Science / General; Folklore & Mythology; History; Myth; Study and teaching
First sentence: Heroic accounts of progress and the march of civilization, when narrating the beloved Greek Miracle, regularly grant prominent place to the transformation in speech and thought that led from the mythos of Homer and Hesiod to the logos of Heraclitus and Plato, a transformation associated with the move from symbolic to rational discourse, anthropomorphism to abstraction, and religion to philosophy.