Conclusion: Only the myth lives in myth - Notes

1 First Epigraph: Charles Feidelson, Symbolism and American Literature (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953), 45. Second Epigraph: Henry Miller and Michael Fraenkel, Hamlet (Santurce, Puerto Rico: Carrefour, 1939), Vol. I, 124-25. This passage is cited in Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans., Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (New York: Viking Press, 1977; Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1983), 298-299.

2 M. M. Bakhtin, "Discourse in the Novel," in The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M.M. Bakhtin, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist, ed. Michael Holquist (1981; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985) The essay dates from 1934-35, but was first published in Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Moscow, 1975). Bakhtin writes, "We are most inclined to imagine ideological creation as some inner process of understanding, comprehension, and perception, and do not notice that it in fact unfolds externally, for the eye, the ear, the hand. It is not within us, but between us."

3 Roland Barthes, "From Work to Text," in Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), 159.