Steblin-Kamenskij .:. Myth

Steblin-Kamenskij, M. I.,
Myth. The Icelandic Sagas and Eddas. Ann Arbor:: Karoma, 1982. ix, 150 Seiten mit einer Abbildung als Frontispiz und Literaturverzeichnis. Leinen mit Schutzumschlag. Grossoktav. 235 x 158 mm. 428 g

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Bestell-Nr.159814 | ISBN: 0-89720-053-5

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Steblin-Kamenskij | Mythen | Mythologie | Maerchen Sagen Legenden | Myth Edda | Islaendische Literatur | Nordistik | Skandinavistik

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MYTH
by M. I. Steblin-Kamenskij

Mikhail Ivanovich Steblin-Kamenskij was one of the most eminent Soviet Scandinaviansts of this century. Iceland was always at the very center of his interests; hence, it is altogether fitting that he has produced this volume on myth centered around the Eddic myths. Literature and linguistics were Steblin-Kamenskij's main lines of inquiry, but they rarely overlapped. Here, he emerges as an independent and original thinker in his analysis of the role of authorship in literature. He transforms the concepts of author and fiction into the main parameters of an innovative theory and applies them to skaldic poetry, the Icelandic sagas, and the ballads. He treats myth as an outgrowth of ways of viewing the world in a progression of stages of consciousness defined by prevailing relationships between "author" and "work." Building on a general definition, he seeks to clarify the connections between literary myth and traditional preliterary mythologizing.
In his brilliant and typically articulate fashion, Sir Edmund Leach debates the author's definition and interpretation of myth from the viewpoint of the social anthropologist. Here, as rarely elsewhere, we have a debate between the literary and the social anthropologist. Leach's introduction, also a reasoned critique of Lévi-Strauss, makes this volume a forum for reconsideration. It is highly recommended for courses in literature and anthropology.
Anatoly Liberman, a student of Steblin Kamenskij, provides an illuminating epilogue which outlines Steblin-Kamenskij 's scholarly and professional career, as well as an invaluable annotated biobibliography.
Steblin-Kamenskij's conception of myth is more meaningful when his entire literary and linguistic heritage is pieced together. It is now possible for English readers to begin an examination of his inspiring literary theory.

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CONTENTS
Translator's Note vii
Preface ix

Introduction, by Sir Edmund Leach 1

Chapter
1. Theories of Myth 21
2. Space and Time in the Eddic Myths 46
3. Personality in the Eddic Myths 69
4. Myth and the Rise of Personality 90

Epilogue and Biobibliography, by Anatoly S. Liberman 91

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