its meaning and functions in ancient and other cultures Kirk, G. S. (Geoffrey Stephen) Additional Author mixed material bibliography California Southern Illinois University Press 1970 monographic en English

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xii, 299 p. 24 cm. 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. Mythology 133.430520016513 Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 133.43 Kir m E10000013 Non Fiction 133.43 Kir m 855 1970-09-03 00:00:00 2024-08-31 09:47:48 machine generated