Myth and Language / Albert Cook.
All aspects of human life are perceived and organized through myths and systems of myth. Language is a similarly vital function of our existence. Myth and Language explores the less universally accepted supposition that, particularly for the realm of literature, these two domains are necessarily int...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1980. ©1980. |
| Year of Publication: | 1980 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 332 pages) |
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Table of 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.