Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.