Myth in the Modern Novel : : Imagining the Absolute / / Liisa Steinby.
Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute posits a twofold thesis. First, although Modernity is regarded as an era dominated by science and rational thought, it has in fact not relinquished the hold of myth, a more "primitive" form of thought which is difficult to reconcile with mod...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Culture & Conflict ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XII, 545 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- Introduction: Myth in the Modern Novel?
- Part I: Assimilation and Amalgamation: Myth and Modernity
- Chapter 1 Imagining the Absolute: Herder’s Rehabilitation of Myth
- Chapter 2 The Early Romantic Idea of a New Mythology: Poeticising the World in Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- Chapter 3 Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers: The Myth of Evolving Humanity
- Chapter 4 The Material Imagination in Michel Tournier’s Friday
- Chapter 5 From Traditional to Modern Use of Tribal Myths in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
- Chapter 6 Torgny Lindgren: Religious Mythopoiesis and Its Modern Surrogates
- Part II: Maintaining the Distinction: Myth or Modernity
- Chapter 7 The Night Side of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Devil’s Elixirs
- Chapter 8 Myth and Science in Zola’s Naturalism
- Chapter 9 Germanness and Mythic Evil in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus
- Chapter 10 Christa Wolf’s Cassandra and Medea: Myth as a Disguise for a Critique of Contemporary Society
- Chapter 11 Milan Kundera: The Search beyond Myth for the Authentic Individual
- Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Myth
- Literature
- Name Index