Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Segal

Myth: A Very Short Introduction by Robert Segal

Author:Robert Segal
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780198724704
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2015-05-27T04:00:00+00:00


Above all, for Feder, Vickery, and Trilling, the influence of myth on literature is the influence of theories of myth on literature. Myth is influential on writers because of what theorists find in myth.

The Mythic Origin of Literature

Another form of the relationship between myth and literature already noted in Chapter 4 is the derivation of literature from myth—an approach pioneered by Jane Harrison and her fellow classicists Gilbert Murray and F. M. Cornford. Let’s take some examples of this approach.



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