Word and Action
Subtitle: Essays on the Ancient Theater
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780801834097
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Theater; Greek Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Philosophy; Ancient - General; Ancient and Classical; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / Ancient & Classical
First sentence: Any title which includes the word "myth" is almost certain, these days, to raise expectations, entertained by some with enthusiasm and by others with dismay, that the writer will deal in wide, if not universal, terms of reference-the complexes, displacements, and sublimations of Sigmund Freud; the somewhat arbitrary archetypes of Jung; the Indo-European tripartite functions of Dumezil; or the codes, contradictions, and mediations of Claude Levi-Strauss-and also that the article will come equipped with at least one complicated diagram.