Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

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 was recuperated as a privileged type of narrative, a process he locates in the political and cultural ferment of...Read more
  • ISBN10 0226482014
  • ISBN13 9780226482019
  • Publish Date 3 April 2000
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 20 May 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Chicago Press