ABSTRACT

The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. ‘Structuralists’ attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as ‘structures’. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themselves to have talents as the collectors from myths of these bundles of information.

chapter |19 pages

The Structure of Myth

chapter |11 pages

Barthes: Myth as Meaningful Form

chapter |23 pages

Lévi-Strauss and the Problems of Oedipus

chapter |28 pages

Vernant: A Logic of the Equivocal

chapter |26 pages

Vidal-Naquet: A Factotum of History

chapter |21 pages

Loraux: The Myths of Death and Life

chapter |24 pages

Gernet's Legacy: A French New Historicism

chapter |10 pages

The Place of the Gernet Center