Olga Freidenberg ; edited and annotated by Nina Braginskaia and Kevin Moss ; translated from the Russian by Kevin Moss ; foreword by Vyacheslav V. Ivanov.
Translation of the 2nd section of the author's Mif i literatura drevnosti which is entitled: Obraz i poni︠a︡tie.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-492).
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Folkloric material began to be differentiated from the mythological images of the past into various disciplines such as religion, philosophy, 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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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 conceptual 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.
UNIFORM TITLE
General Material Designation
Obraz i poni︠a︡tie.
Language (when part of a heading)
English
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature and folklore.
Literature, Ancient-- History and criticism.
Mythology in literature.
Letterkunde.
Literature and folklore.
Literature, Ancient.
Mythologie.
Mythology in literature.
Tragedies.
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
809/
.
915
Edition
21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PN56
.
M95
Book number
F6913
1997
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
17
.
81
System Code
bcl
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Freĭdenberg, O. M., (Olʹga Mikhaĭlovna),1890-1955.