Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

by Bruce Lincoln

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226482022
• ISBN13: 9780226482026
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"