Mito, retórica y poética

Abstract

The aim of these pages is to show how myth is language and, consequently, how myth's characteristics match up with that of language itself: myth, like language, is operative, dynamic, pragmatical, symbolical and metaphorical, more psychological than logical and, above all, political and social. But this little piece of language called myth is also, by its intention, comparable to Rhetoric, because is persuasive, and to Poetics, because is far from a concrete and immediate context and it is metaphorical and "poietic", that is, creative.