Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, Volume 9Joseph Strelka |
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... mythology is primarily that of the student of early poetry and religion . While he recognized the poetic power of Greek mythology , he saw all mythology as the source of a new national poetry , at once sacred and patriotic . Herder's ...
... mythology is primarily that of the student of early poetry and religion . While he recognized the poetic power of Greek mythology , he saw all mythology as the source of a new national poetry , at once sacred and patriotic . Herder's ...
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... mythology in ancient or medieval times is now lacking . The crucial programmatic text is the Gespräch über die Poesie of 1800 , a direct expression of the intense speculation con- cerning the nature and function of myth on the part of ...
... mythology in ancient or medieval times is now lacking . The crucial programmatic text is the Gespräch über die Poesie of 1800 , a direct expression of the intense speculation con- cerning the nature and function of myth on the part of ...
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... mythology to an end in itself , used for its own sake ; but such attempts were soon abandoned.22 A poet- we may point to Ovid as an example - had to be able to estimate how much of the detail of the myth and how much subtlety he could ...
... mythology to an end in itself , used for its own sake ; but such attempts were soon abandoned.22 A poet- we may point to Ovid as an example - had to be able to estimate how much of the detail of the myth and how much subtlety he could ...
Contents
THE MYTH OF THE ARTIST | 3 |
MYTH POETRY AND CRITICAL THEORY | 51 |
MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION AND THE READING | 72 |
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