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Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature

Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature

Freidenberg, Olga

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Therapeutic Intervention, Book 2

Literary CriticismGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 905702506X
ISBN13: 9789057025068
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 8 1997
Pages: 510
Weight: 1.96
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
First published in 1997. Image and Concept: Mythopoetic Roots of Literature here - finally - available in English, is devoted to the origins of Greek tragedy. In it, Freidenberg develops the notion that it was the very transition from thinking based on mythological images to the kind of thinking that makes use of formal-logical concepts that resulted in the appearance of literature. With the transition from mythological thinking to con-ceptual thought, the content of mythological images became the texture of the new concepts. The inherited mythological forms now were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, abstracted. This reinterpretation, in turn, brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, phi-losophy, ethics, literature, and art. Yet, differentiated and reinterpreted as it was, the folkloric material remained formally preserved in poetic image, structure, and plot.

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