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- Publisher
- de Gruyter
- Copyright
- © 2013 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.
- ISSN
- 2235-2066
- eISSN
- 2235-2066
- DOI
- 10.1515/cogsem.2008.3.fall2008.20
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Marce l Henaff The Mythologiques: Between linguistics and music^ When Claude l^vi-Strauss decided to use the metaphoric model and a certain vocabulary of music in his analysis of myths, he implicitly consi- dered the mythical narrative, like music, as a symbolic device. Myth does not belong to the order of signs, which can be interpreted as having and conveying an encoded, signified meaning. Instead, it organizes the world for its practitioners; its Performance is each time an act of Organization of things and beings. Like music, myths are in a relation of transforma- tion: since myths - according to Levi-Strauss - belong to the order of symbolism, they can be 'translated' only within that order. Thus translat- ing means generating new symbolic elements, i.e. producing a transfor- mation. Myths are reinterpreted from one Variation to another, just like variations on themes in a piece of music. The task of the mythologist is thus comparable to that of a music performer, whose interpretation is itself part of the system to which the interpreted structure belongs - so mythological analysis is an extension of the network to which mythical narratives belong. The underlying and groundbreaking implication of this music-myth relation proposed
Journal
Cognitive Semiotics – de Gruyter
Published: Sep 1, 2008