Western myth and epic are structured by linear filiation toward a projected end

Evidence

In the Western world the hidden cause (the consequence) of both My th and Epic is filiation, its work setting out upon the fixed linearity of tirne, always toward a projection, a project. … In every instance, and of necessity, the mythical community precedes any thought of the individual, whose foremost dimension is as a link in the chain of filiation. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Foucauldian lineage-and-territory/filiation contrast shaping the reader’s strategic-essentialism research; filiation vs. non-linear identity prefigures Glissant’s later rhizome/creolization distinction. — connects to: Epic narrative organizes myth but dissolves it through rational order.; Myth and epic enact being as closed filiation, excluding the other.; Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Epic narrative organizes myth but dissolves it through rational order. #expands (0.85)
• Myth and epic enact being as closed filiation, excluding the other. #corroborates (0.85)
• Non-linear time and philosophies of the All do not generate mythic filiation #qualifies (0.85) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 280
• The homogeneous unified class may be a retrospective fiction of Western self-narrative #complicates (0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 194