Myth. Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures. - KIRK, G.S.,

KORTE INHOUD

'One of the most refreshing and stimulating features of this book is its readiness to explore and correlate the mythologies of this area and others, and indeed to face up to the total human experience in relation to myth. (...) If the discussion of the qualities of Greek myths makes rather more humdrum reading, for the most part, it contains a useful analysis of 'common themes' and basic concerns'. Hesiod is impressively dealt with; so is the passage from mythical to rational thought, with the suggestion that 'mythology had provided a conceptual language, long before Hesiod'. In the final chapter on the meaning of myth in general primacy is given to the role of fantasy and dreams; it was Otto Rank in 1907 it appears, who first formulated the idea that in 'some sense myths are the dream-thinking of the people'. Kirk's own formulation is more complex: he thinks that the narrative and functional aspects of myths tended to develop side by side, While 'some dreams and myths imply a degree of interdependence', such... Lees verder...

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1973Uitgever: Cambridge at the University Press/University of California Press