The Poetics of Myth by Eleazar M. Meletinsky

The Poetics of Myth

Eleazar M. Meletinsky

516 pages first pub 1983 (view editions)

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Eleazar Meletinsky considers myth the "prehistory" phase of literature. In "The Poetics of Myth, " he explores the mythological inheritance of specific images, myth as a form of oral literature, and the formulas and structure of myth as the basis ...

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