Assertion: myth | /r/CapableOf | survive in modern fictional forms
Facets:
value: only tenuously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Eric Gould presents in Mythical Intentions in Modern Literature an intelligent and sympathetic account of Lévi-Strauss's thought about myth and its relation to literature but finally can do little more than point to the anthropologist's rather dispiriting conclusion that myth survives only tenuously in modern fictional forms and that the novel is a literary genre that "tells a story that ends badly, and... now, as a genre [is] itself coming to a bad end" (95).