Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures
Автор:G. S. Kirk Год: 1998 Издание:Cambridge University Press Страниц: 312 ISBN: 9780520023895 THIS BOOK attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece; the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought; the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims.
