“We do not in everyday life reflect much on how one people’s ‘myth’ may be another people’s religion or episteme. What ‘we’ label ‘myth’ from other cultures then translates into the ‘that’s just a myth!’ formula that implicitly sustains the value of our own beliefs. Thus trivialized—though in different ways—both outside and within Western culture, ‘myth’ in common English-language usage today is the object of exoticizing amusement or dismissal; it is deprived of its associations with history, knowledge, and vision—what has made myth culturally valuable and has most fascinated scholars of myths and traditional narratives” (Bacchilega 25).
My attempt:
According to Bacchilega, we often forget that what we may think of as fantasy, someone else may regard as truth, or what they truly believe in. We seem to put our own beliefs in the way of others, disregarding what they believe as fiction. This leads to a mindset of "that's just a myth" (Bacchilega 25).
And my biggest problem with my paper is citing sources. Not just putting them in my paper, but actually finding them. It isn't as easy as it looks.
That's my problem too. And i think they only solution to the problem is TIME. As much as it sucks, the more time you put in the better results come from it.
ReplyDeleteTrue fact. It's not easy AT ALL.
ReplyDeleteSo, we can just have another class facebook conversation about how great we're all doing at.... not doing anything!
Yeah, it's frustrating to miss the difference between a scholarly article and a scholarly article found on a database online through a proxy server and what not. I agree!
ReplyDeleteYa sources stink, I have enough sources but it is hard to tell if they are all good sources though.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the sources problem. What we learned about our first time in the library helped me a lot though. (When we went on the library website and found sources from the scholarly articles, books, etc.) Good luck!
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