Myth and History: The Rivalry of Two Brothers
Abstract Western thought has been oriented towards highlighting the passion for knowledge and not by making relevant knowledge of the passions, ignoring or despising those traditional knowledges in which human beings are submerged since our birth as a genre and as individuals. As history has not only study what happened, but how he felt or thought who participated in what happened, as human beings, agents of history, act driven by passions, the myth is a product of the same. Narrative discourse of history, on the other hand, is not a neutral means to represent events and historical processes, but that is a matter of a mythical conception of reality. It is understood the attraction of the historical discourse if recognition to what extent it makes desirable is real. The word history proclaims ambiguity, combining objective and subjective aspects. Denotes the res gestae, but also the history rerum gestarum, including what happened and also the story of what has happened. The concept of history plays, therefore, the ambiguity that exists in the absence of proper distinction between the object of study, which is the human past, and the plot of the speech that on such an object is displayed. Historical representation employs the imagination and allows the potential reader to leave your imagination to help focus the past. The myth also influences social realities, exerting a legitimating role, or not, as it is the case with the political reality of a city or the prestigious noble family. Therefore, that today already not is should refer to separate clearly between myth and history, as all historical conception has mythical elements. In short, no action the mythical bordering, without some smack of the same is not history, without that it disqualifies it, but that enriches it.
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von Hendy, A. (2001). The Modern construction of Myth. Indianápolis: Indiana University Press.
White, H. (1978). Tropics of Discourse. Berkeley: John Hopkins University Press.
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Young, R. (1990). White Mythologies: Writing History and the West. Londres: Routledge.
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