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Le mythe dans les litteratures d'europe
Jean-Louis Backès - Collection Litterature cerf
Résumé
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When we study the presence of what we call a 'myth' in a literary text, what are we actually dealing with? If we examine this question in detail, a thousand others arise. Why does theory constantly hark back to Homer and Hesiod? In which of Plato's texts do we encounter the word 'myth'? Why didn't the Church Fathers ban mythology? When did the word 'allegory' appear and what was its function? Why did the word 'myth' disappear from Western Europe at the end of Antiquity and why did it reappear with Romanticism? How many meanings does it have today? (It is impossible to answer this last question, the author informs us, but it is useful to know why!) By now it will be clear that Jean-Louis Backès' book is a concise investigation into the history of the word 'myth' and those things it might describe. To achieve this, he recalls the fundamental ancient and modern texts, analyses the forms that a mythological tale can assume and examines the different techniques of interpretation, ancient and modern. He concludes with a study of the presence in Western literature of those myths associated with the idea of chaos and cosmos. The examples are taken solely from the literature of the great European languages, from Antiquity to the present day. Principally because, in Europe, Antique mythology is both carefully conserved and vigorously attacked. The question of the 'myth' and idols, having lost none of its force, merits all our attention.
L'auteur - Jean-Louis Backès
Autres livres de Jean-Louis Backès
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Jean-Louis Backès |
Collection | Litterature cerf |
Parution | 11/03/2010 |
Nb. de pages | 206 |
Format | 13.4 x 21.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 266g |
EAN13 | 9782204091718 |
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