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Theorizing Myth

Paperback • 2000 • English

Theorizing Myth

By Bruce Lincoln

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In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that "mythos" yielded to "logos" not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle", but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy. Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth wa...Show more

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9780226482026

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Theorizing Myth

Format

Paperback

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