Myths of Europe / edited by Richard Littlejohns, Sara Soncini.
Myths of Europe focuses on the identity of Europe, seeking to re-assess its cultural, literary and political traditions in the context of the 21st century. Over 20 authors – historians, political scientists, literary scholars, art and cultural historians – from five countries here enter into a debat...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 107 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Notes: | "This volume is based on a colloquium entitled 'Miti d'Europa/Myths of Europe' held in Pisa in Sept. 2002"--P. [7]. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgments / Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini
- Introduction: Myths of Europe, and Myths of Europe / Richard Littlejohns and Sara Soncini
- Europa/Europe: Myths and Muddles / Manfred Pfister
- Electras and Hamlet / Guido Paduano
- Myths of Europe: Ted Hughes’s Tales from Ovid / Mark Rawlinson
- Myths of Masculinity: Adonis and Heracles / Pierangiolo Berrettoni
- St Nicholas, Icon of Mercantile Virtues: Transition and Continuity of a European Myth / Graham Jones
- Re-writing a Myth: Dryden’s Amphitryon and its Sources / Elena Rossi
- ‘A Foundling at the Crossroads’: Fielding, Tradition(s) and a ‘Dantesque’ Reading of Tom Jones / Roberta Ferrari
- Viewing the Moon: Between Myth and Astronomy in the Age of the Enlightenment / Antje Steinhoefel
- George Eliot’s Use of Scriptural Typology: Incarnation of Ideas / Alessandra Grego
- Myth and the Folklore of the Sea in Conrad / Mario Curreli
- Some Differentiations within the Concepts of ‘Myth’ / Darko Suvin
- Places of Myth in Ireland / Andrea Binelli
- Everlasting Peace and Medieval Europe: Romantic Myth-Making in Novalis’s Europa / Richard Littlejohns
- British Women versus Indian Women: the Victorian Myth of European Superiority / Nuria López
- Frontier Myths: Travel Writing on Europe’s Eastern Border / Andrew Hammond
- West is Best: Britain and European Immigration during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Tony Kushner
- Changing Perceptions of State Violence: Turkey’s ‘Westward’ Development through Anglo-Saxon Eyes / Donald Bloxham
- From Fascism to the Bomb: Marino Marini and the Undermining and Destruction of the Classical European Horseman / Nicholas Watkins
- New Order, New Borders: Post-Cold War Europe on the British Stage / Sara Soncini
- The Myth of the Etruscans in Travel Literature in English / Silvia Ross
- The Myth of the European Civil War / Tom Lawson
- Notes on Contributors.