ISBN:
9781138840621
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (241 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Myth
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Myth Ser. v.2
Parallel Title:
Print version The Methods of the Gernet Classicists (RLE Myth) : The Structuralists on Myth
DDC:
398
Keywords:
Centre Louis Gernet
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. 'Structuralists' attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as 'structures'. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themse
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter One-The Structure of Myth; Chapter Two-Barthes: Myth as Meaningful Form; Chapter Three-Lévi-Strauss and the Problems of Oedipus; Chapter Four-Vernant: A Logic of the Equivocal; Chapter Five-Detienne: The Empirical Categories of Myth; Chapter Six-Vidal-Naquet: A Factotum of History; Chapter Seven-Loraux: The Myths of Death and Life; Chapter Eight-Gernet's Legacy: A French New Historicism
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion-The Place of the Gernet CenterSelected Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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