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In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others.

He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy. Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth was recuperated as a privileged type of narrative, a process he locates in the political and cultural ferment of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Here, he connects renewed enthusiasm for myth to the nexus of Romanticism, nationalism, and Aryan triumphalism, particularly the quest for a language and set of stories on which nation-states could be founded.

In the final section of this wide-ranging book, Lincoln advocates a fresh approach to the study of myth, providing varied case studies to support his view of myth--and scholarship on myth--as ideology in narrative form.

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Heroic accounts of progress and the march of civilization, when narrating the beloved Greek Miracle, regularly grant prominent place to the transformation in speech and thought that led from the mythos of Homer and Hesiod to the logos of Heraclitus and Plato, a transformation associated with the move from symbolic to rational discourse, anthropomorphism to abstraction, and religion to philosophy.

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Title Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
Author Bruce Lincoln
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition; F
Pages 313
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London
Publication date April 3, 2000
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
ISBN 9780226482019 / 0226482014
Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
Dimensions 9.36 x 6.37 x 0.96 in (23.77 x 16.18 x 2.44 cm)
Category Sociology
Library of Congress subjects Myth - Study and teaching - History
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99013427
Dewey Decimal Code 291.130

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University Of Chicago Press, 2000. First edition. Paperback. octavo. 298pp Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper. Also laid in is letter from author. Lacking dust jacket.

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