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04259aam a2200457Ii 4500 001 50DAEA1C90F111EA86A69E4897128E48 003 SILO 005 20200508010100 008 780906s1973 enk b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9780521078351 020 $a 0521078350 020 $a 9780520016514 020 $a 0520016513 020 $a 9780521098021 020 $a 0521098025 020 $a 9780520023895 020 $a 0520023897 035 $a (OCoLC)4199103 040 $a OBE $b eng $c OBE $d OCL $d UIU $d PGC $d EL$ $d OCLCQ $d MUQ $d OCLCQ $d BAKER $d NLGGC $d UIA $d UZ0 $d OCLCG $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d GBVCP $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d B3G $d YWS $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCA $d GZM $d OCLCQ $d BGU $d VLW $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 4 $a BL311 $b .K55 1973 082 04 $a 398 082 04 $a 291 $b K63m, 1973 $2 21 084 $a 73.56 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Kirk, G. S. $q (Geoffrey Stephen), $d 1921- 245 10 $a Myth: its meaning and functions in ancient and other cultures / $c by G.S. Kirk. 250 $a [1st pbk. ed.]. 260 $a Cambridge [England] : $b University Press ; $c 1973, 1975 printing. 300 $a xii, 299 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Sather classical lectures ; $v v. 40 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Myth, ritual and folktale -- LeÌvi-Strauss and the structural approach -- The nature of myths in ancient Mesopotamia -- Nature and culture : Gilgamesh, Centaurs and Cyclopes -- The qualities of Greek myths -- Tales, dreams, symbols : towards a fuller understanding of myths. 520 $a This book attempts to come to grips with a set of widely ranging but connected problems concerning myths: their relation to folktales on the one hand, to rituals on the other; the validity and scope of the structuralist theory of myth; the range of possible mythical functions; the effects of developed social institutions and literacy; the character and meaning of ancient Near-Eastern myths and their influence on Greece; the special forms taken by Greek myths and their involvement with rational modes of thought; the status of myths as expressions of the unconscious, as allied with dreams, as universal symbols, or as accidents of primarily narrative aims. Almost none of these problems has been convincingly handled, even in a provisional way, up to the present, and this failure has vitiated not only such few general discussions as exist of the nature, meanings and functions of myths but also, in many cases, the detailed assessment of individual myths of different cultures. The need for a coherent treatment of these and related problems, and one that is not concerned simply to propagate a particular universalistic theory, seems undeniable. How far the present book will satisfactorily fill such a need remains to be seen. At least it makes a beginning, even if in doing so it risks the criticism of being neither fish nor fowl. Sociologists and folklorists may find it, from their specialized viewpoints, a little simplistic in places; and a few classical colleagues will not forgive me for straying far beyond Greek myths, even though these can hardly be understood in isolation or solely in the light of studies in cult and ritual. Others may find it less easy than anthropologists, sociologists, historians of thought or students of French and English literature to accept the relevance of Levi-Strauss to some of these matters; but his theory contains the one important new idea in this field since Freud, it is complicated and largely untested, and it demands careful attention from anyone attempting a broad understanding of the subject. The beliefs of Freud and Jung, on the other hand, are a more familiar element in the situation and have given rise to an enormous secondary literature, much of it arbitrary and some of it absurd. The author has tried to isolate the crucial ideas and subject them to a pointed, if too brief, critique; so too with those of Ernst Cassirer. -- Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Mythology. 650 6 $a Mythologie. 650 7 $a Mythology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01031701 650 17 $a Mythen. $2 gtt 830 0 $a Sather classical lectures ; $v v. 40. 941 $a 1 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508010941.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=50DAEA1C90F111EA86A69E4897128E48 994 $a 92 $b UINInitiate Another SILO Locator Search