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ancient drama analysis
Ancient Variants
Author_Olga Freidenberg
Category=CFG
Category=DSA
Charac Ter
choral
Choral Lyric
Choral Songs
Classical Metaphor
comedy
conceptual
conceptual abstraction
Conceptual Reworking
Dead Man
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evolution of mythological thought
Figural Meaning
folklore differentiation
Greek literary origins
Greek Tragedy
images
Libation Bearers
Lion Cub
lyric
Main Character
Messenger's Story
Messenger’s Story
middle
Middle Comedy
mythic narrative structures
mythological
Mythological Images
Mythological Semantics
poetic figuration
Poetic Image
Prometheus Bound
reworking
Satyr Play
Semantic Identity
semantics
Suppliant Maidens
thought
Tragic Chorus
Wingless Bird
Women's Chorus
Women’s Chorus
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9789057025075
- Weight: 950g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 1997
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1997. 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. 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.
Olga Freidenberg, Nina Braginskaia, Kevin Moss, Kevin Moss, Vyacheslav V. Ivanov
