Mythological Criticism - Theory and Paths

Mythology has become a phenomenon in modern world literature in light of the scientific, technological, and literary revolutions of the last century, and the intrusion of what Lévi-Strauss called "primitive thought" into the thinking of civilized man. Man, especially the "primitive," realized that he had always thought well. One of the most prominent proponents of the mythological approach is the Canadian critic Northrop Frye, whose book Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is considered one of the ...