RE: Excavating The Empty Tomb
June 3, 2013 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2013 at 1:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Well, we really only have two choices. It's either myth or legend, and in the absence of an actual person to congeal a legend around - that leaves us with myth. We could spin it as an assumed legend (it's not required that the character existed - only that people believed that the character existed - to be qualified as legendary as opposed to mythical). CMT theory dilineates between the authors conception of the narrative (proposed as mythical) and it's reception (as legendary, obviously, at some point).
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