Dalla scienza dei segni alla semiotica del testo. Il campo semiotico e le teorie della significazione
The semiotic investigation of myth often returns to two key notions that attempt to capture its smallest meaningful components: the mythologeme and the mytheme. Both terms appeared in the first half of the twentieth century, each emerging from a different intellectual tradition. Their comparison reveals two distinct ways of thinking about the inner organization of myth — one…
Is myth still relevant to everyday life? Can we say that myth still lives among us, though perhaps in altered forms? Even in the twenty-first century it remains an enigma for researchers, a phenomenon that has been examined through the lenses of ethnography, literary theory, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, and anthropology. In the mid-twentieth century,…