• Dr. Rouble Brar

Myth Poetics is concerned with the scientific study of myth. Though the concept of poetics is derived from Aristotle but myth poetics can be understood as engaging and exploring myth through the modern scientific approach pioneered by Claude Levi-Strauss’s structural analysis of myth. Thomas Campbell describes myth as living inspiration while Carl Jung defines myth as personal. According to Campbell myth is not only the bearer of the religious beliefs, philosophical musings, artistic expressions, social formations but also is the location of scientific and technological discoveries. Jung compares myth with science, bringing out the predominance of myth over science in understanding the subjectivity in an individual life. It manifests a more individualistic approach and expresses life with more precision than Science. Science works with concepts of averages which are far too general to do justice to the subjectivism immanent in all its variety in the particular. Myth is the repository of cultural narratives of the preliterate societies. Myth Poetics explores myth beyond the limitations of human propensities towards mythopoesis and mythogenesis. Through the structural interpretation of myths, myth poetics draws attention towards the innate speculative organization of the myths. It simultaneously focuses on the specificities of a culture and the universality inherent in mythic structures.

Myth, Mythopoesis, Mythogenesis, Diachronic, Synchronic, Bricolage, Bricoleur

"Myth Poetics: A Structuralist Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no.399-403, December-2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012058.pdf

"Myth Poetics: A Structuralist Study", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 12, page no. pp399-403, December-2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2012058.pdf