Eleazar M. Meletinsky Guy Lanoue Alexandre Sadetsky
This work considers myth to be the prehistory phase of literature and explores the mythological inheritance of specific images, myth as a form of oral literature, and the formulas and structure of myth as the basis for literature. Translated from the Russian, this version of his classic work has been edited to reinstate omissions due to political censorship.
This work considers myth to be the prehistory phase of literature and explores the mythological inheritance of specific images, myth as a form of oral...
