Image and Concept
Freidenberg, Olga
It was Freidenberg's special genius that anticipated the structural and semiotic approaches to myth and literatue. "Image and Concept" develops the notion that with the transition from mythological thinking to formal-logical concepts came the appearance of literature. Inherited mythological forms were reinterpreted conceptually: causalized, ethicized, generalized, and abstracted. This reinterpretation brought about poetic figurality. Folkloric...