Antiquity and the Making of American Myth: The Oresteia and Mourning Becomes Electra

Ahmet BEŞE

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Antiquity and the Making of American Myth: The Oresteia and Mourning Becomes Electra

Yazarlar:

Ahmet BEŞE

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 13, pp.13-22

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2001

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735121

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606

Özet:

 

Throughout recorded history, the tales and stories, which once had theological, historical  and philosophical significance and are called myths have dominated human experiences.  Theatre in the Western world has been, above all, a mixture of ritual, imitation and myth. The  need for ritual survives to the present day in many cultures, as can be seen in wedding  ceremonies, various festivals, church services and even in some sports events. The need to  imitate, or the ‘mimetic instinct’, is one of man’s oldest and most basic instinctive  characteristics. Out of ritual and imitation came the need to create or regenerate myth. Myths  served as the basis for rituals by which the early perceptions and predictions of humanity and  those of nature could be psychologically reconciled. “Myths have their historic time and  meta-historic time; the time in which they came into being and their universal validity outside  of time. They are intelligible in translation-from language to language, from one civilization  to another, from one religious system to another”  Kott 241-242 . Thus, myths and rituals are  still operative in theistic and cultural hierarchies of the world. Studying a myth or a series of  myths is simultaneously studying difference and commonality of a culture in question.

Makale detayları

Antiquity and the Making of American Myth: The Oresteia and Mourning Becomes Electra

Yazarlar: Ahmet BEŞE

Yayıncı: American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi: Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 13, pp.13-22

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 3/2001

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000735121

Sıklık: İki Yıllık

pISSN: 1300-6606

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Ahmet BEŞE

Yayıncı:

American Studies Association of Turkey (ASAT)

Dergi:

Journal of American Studies of Turkey 2001 Issue 13, pp.13-22

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

3/2001

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000735121

Sıklık:

İki Yıllık

pISSN:

1300-6606