The Poetics of Myth

Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinsky (1918–2005) – an outstanding Russian scholar, folklorist, literary critic, semiologist, cultural historian, Doctor of Philology, academician of the Academy of Humanitarian Studies, founder of a research school in theoretical folkloristics, author of more than a dozen monographs... and numerous articles on the genesis and semantics of myths from various peoples of the world, on mythological archetypes in oral and written literature, on historical poetics of epic genres from their primitive origins to the literature of the New and Modern times. The monograph «The Poetics of Myth» (1976) gained international fame and wide academic recognition, translated into ten languages and repeatedly republished in the author's homeland.
The book examines, based on extensive textual material, general questions of the structure of mythological plots and mythological thinking, the history of the study of mythology by various scientific schools, and the diverse forms of the existence of myth in culture, folklore, and literature from ancient times to the present.

Author: Елеазар Мелетинский

Printhouse: Azbuka

Series: New Cultural Code

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2017

ISBN: 9785389121881

Number of pages: 480

Size: 210х140х25 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 617 g

ID: 678542

Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinsky (1918–2005) – an outstanding Russian scholar, folklorist, literary critic, semiologist, cultural historian, Doctor of Philology, academician of the Academy of Humanitarian Studies, founder of a research school in theoretical folkloristics, author of more than a dozen monographs and numerous articles on the genesis and semantics of myths from various peoples of the world, on mythological archetypes in oral and written literature, on historical poetics of epic genres from their primitive origins to the literature of the New and Modern times. The monograph «The Poetics of Myth» (1976) gained international fame and wide academic recognition, translated into ten languages and repeatedly republished in the author's homeland.
The book examines, based on extensive textual material, general questions of the structure of mythological plots and mythological thinking, the history of the study of mythology by various scientific schools, and the diverse forms of the existence of myth in culture, folklore, and literature from ancient times to the present.

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