In the Embrace of the Swan

Published by De Gruyter 2010

In the Embrace of the Swan

Anglo-German Mythologies in Literature, the Visual Arts and Cultural Theory

Edited by: Rüdiger Görner and Angus Nicholls

Volume 18 in the series spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110215915

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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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Rüdiger Görner and Angus Nicholls, Queen Mary, University of London, Great Britain.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	I
Inhalt / Contents Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	V
Zur Einführung Rüdiger Görner and Angus Nicholls Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
Mythen Theorien / Theories of Myth
Mythos zwischen Sprache und Schrift Christoph Jamme Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	12
Gegenwärtigkeit des Mythos nach der Aufklärung? Mythostheoretische Einwände Herwig Gottwald Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	27
From Nineteenth- to Twentieth-Century Theorizing about Myth in Britain and Germany Robert A. Segal Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	41
Mythische Motive im Vergleich / Mythical Motifs in Comparison
„Wehmut reißt durch die Saiten der Brust“: Goethes Elegie Euphrosyne und die Poems of Ossian Rüdiger Singer Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	65
„God of liberty?“ Der moderne Dionysosmythos in Deutschland und England Christian Benne Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	87
In the Embrace of the Swan: The Poetry and Politics of Corruption in Yeats and Lawrence Maria Thanassa Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	111
Jesuits, Jews and Thugs: Myths of Conspiracy and Infiltration from Dickens to Thomas Mann Ritchie Robertson Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	126
Mythisches Erzählen im Faschismus – die Romanexperimente der 30er Jahre (Broch, C. G. Jung, Th. Mann) Monika Ritzer Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	147
Coventry und Dresden, Ninive und Sodom. Durs Grünbeins Koordinaten mythologischer Sinnstiftung nach dem 11. September 2001 Volker Mergenthaler Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	168
Bildmythologien / Visual Mythologies
Myths of Nothingness. The End of the World and the Beginning of Aesthetics in Hogarth and Jean Paul Jochen Bedenk Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	187
The Lost Original: Blake and Lavater’s Search for Divine Likeness Sibylle Erle Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	211
Myths of Anglo-German Surrealism: Max Ernst and Leonora Carrington Ernest Schonfield Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	231
Nationale Mythenwahrnehmungen / National Myth Receptions
The Bard as Original and Future Poet. The Dialectic of Modernity in English and German Literary Thought around 1800 Maike Oergel Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	260
Britische und deutsche Mythologeme in der europäischen ‚Gestalt‘ Lord Byrons Wilfried Barner Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	281
‘The sight of this pale brown naked flesh’: Mythical Aryan Masculinity and British Travel Writing about 1930s Germany Petra Rau Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	308
Mythos und Wissenschaft, Die Wissenschaft vom Mythos / Myth and Science, The Science of Myth
Kulturvergleich in den Mythentheorien der Spätaufklärung Lucas Marco Gisi Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	325
Deutsch-englische Mythos-Mythen. Oxford 1908 – universelle und nationale Forschungstraditionen Myriam Richter and Bernd Hamacher Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	341
Mythos und Irrationalismus. Isaiah Berlins Blick auf Hamann Timo Günther Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	353
Rationality in Myth and Science Kurt Hübner Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	369
Backmatter Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	383

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 397
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 34
Keywords: Anglo-German cultural transfers; reception of myths

eBook

Published: August 31, 2010
ISBN: 9783110215915

Hardcover

Published: August 17, 2010
ISBN: 9783110209587