Myth and epic enact being as closed filiation, excluding the other.

Evidence

Kracauer, at the same time, wrote a forceful review for the Frankfurt Blätter für Kunst und Literatur (Magazine for Art and Literature) of this essay in the philosophy of history on the forms of great epic', with its distinction between the classical epics, on the one hand, as a form of epic writing concerned with the closed culture’ of a world filled with gods and with meaning, and the novel, on the other, as a form of epic writing concerned with the problematic culture of a world which had been abandoned by gods and meaning, an epoch of perfect sinfulness. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 263 (#expands, via linked claim)

We can guess that energy circulated by philosophies of the One in the West reinvigorated these imperatives of filiation. Wherever time was not conceived of as linear-India, for example-or where philosophers contemplated not the One but the AlI, the founding myths did not generate the process of filiation.* Conceptions of the origins of the world (its creation) were not corroborated in a genealogical sequence that would have rooted the species (race or people) in this first act. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Western myth and epic are structured by linear filiation toward a projected end — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 279; Rushdie’s class-bounded experience and modernist affiliation form a closed circle excluding heroic action. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 548; Lukacs distinguished closed epic culture from the god-abandoned novel — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 263 (+3 more)

Related

• Western myth and epic are structured by linear filiation toward a projected end (similarity 0.86)
• Myth and epic exclude the other from relation through filiation-based violence. (similarity 0.82)
• Lukacs distinguished closed epic culture from the god-abandoned novel (similarity 0.81)
• Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation (similarity 0.80)
• Mythic figures are compulsive repetitions where curse, crime, and guilt form a closed cycle. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Lukacs distinguished closed epic culture from the god-abandoned novel #expands (0.82) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 263
• Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280
• Mythic figures are compulsive repetitions where curse, crime, and guilt form a closed cycle. #corroborates (0.75)