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Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics - with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research.
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In the Embrace of the Swan
spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature Komparatistische Studien / Comparative Studies
Herausgegeben von / Edited by Angelika Corbineau-Hoffmann · Werner Frick
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat / Editorial Board Sam-Huan Ahn · Peter-Andre´ Alt · Aleida Assmann · Francis Claudon Marcus Deufert · Wolfgang Matzat · Fritz Paul · Terence James Reed Herta Schmid · Simone Winko · Bernhard Zimmermann Theodore Ziolkowski
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In the Embrace of the Swan Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory Edited by Rüdiger Görner and Angus Nicholls
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Redaktionelle Mitarbeit: Dr. Carly McLaughlin und Margit Dirscherl
ISBN 978-3-11-020958-7 e-ISBN 978-3-11-021591-5 ISSN 1860-210X Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data In the embrace of the swan : Anglo-German mythologies in literature, the visual arts and cultural theory / (edited) by Rüdiger Görner, Angus Nicholls. p. cm. - (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 18) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-3-11-020958-7 (acid-free paper) 1. Literature, Comparative - German and English. 2. Literature, Comparative - English and German. 3. Myth in literature. 4. Mythology, Germanic, in literature. 5. Mythology, British. 6. Myth in art. I. Görner, Rüdiger. II. Nicholls, Angus (Angus James), 1972PT123.G7I5 2010 840.91.15-dc22 2010006415
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Inhalt / Contents Rüdiger Görner / Angus Nicholls Zur Einführung .....................................................................................................1 Mythen Theorien / Theories of Myth Christoph Jamme Mythos zwischen Sprache und Schrift.............................................................12 Herwig Gottwald Gegenwärtigkeit des Mythos nach der Aufklärung? Mythostheoretische Einwände..........................................................................27 Robert A. Segal From Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theorizing about Myth in Britain and Germany................................................................41 Mythische Motive im Vergleich / Mythical Motifs in Comparison Rüdiger Singer „Wehmut reißt durch die Saiten der Brust“: Goethes Elegie Euphrosyne und die Poems of Ossian.........................................65 Christian Benne „God of liberty?“ Der moderne Dionysosmythos in Deutschland und England ....................87 Maria Thanassa In the Embrace of the Swan: The Poetry and Politics of Corruption in Yeats and Lawrence.................111
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Mythologische Erzählkonfigurationen / Mythical Narrative Figurations Ritchie Robertson Jesuits, Jews and Thugs: Myths of Conspiracy and Infiltration from Dickens to Thomas Mann...126 Monika Ritzer Mythisches Erzählen im Faschismus – die Romanexperimente der 30er