3. The Historicity of Myth

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. Opening Conclusions
7. 1. "That Which Is Without" 11
8. 2. "The Inward World of Thought and Feeling" 18
9. 3. Aestheticism 26
10. 4. Answerable Style 37
11. 5. Historicism 46
12. 6. Aesthetic Historicism and "Aesthetic Poetry" 57
13. 7. The Poetics of Revival 68
14. Part Two. Figural Strategies in The Renaissance
15. 1. Legend and Historicity 79
16. 2. Myths of History: The Last Supper 94
17. 3. The Historicity of Myth 103
18. 4. Myths of History: The Mona Lisa 111
19. 5. Types and Figures 123
20. 6. Low and High Relief: " Luca Della Robbia" 143
21. 7. The Senses of Relief 153
22. Part Three. Historical Novelty and Marius the Epicurean
23. 1. The Transparent Hero 169
24. 2. Autobiography of the Zeitgeist 184
25. 3. The Transcendental Induction 193
26. 4. Typology as Narrative Form 202
27. 5. Typological Ladders 213
28. 6. Christian Historicism 219
29. 7. Literary History as "Appreciation" 224
30. Part Four. "Recovery as Reminiscence" : The Greek Studies and Plato and Platonism
31. 1. Histories of Myth: The Greek Studies 235
32. 2. The House Beautiful and Its Interpreter 247
33. 3. The Philosophy of Mythic Form 249
34. 4. The History of Philosophy 258
35. 5. The Anecdote of the Shell 266
36. 6. Dialogue and Dialectic 270
37. 7. Paterian Recollection: The Anagogic Mind 277
38. Afterword 282
39. Index 285