Mythic Paradigms in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts approaches literary and visual texts from the perspective of Hesperian identification and representation. Included is the first translation into English of Fichte's Supplement of 1801, a document whose content sheds light not only on the atheism controversy of the 1790s, but also on literary/philosophical polarizations in the Republic of Letters. Condensed from the Hesperian atmospherics of Italy and Latin elegy, Faust II entails a Goethean celebration of auditory and visual sensation. In a text devoted to Shelley, Gregory Corso is seen elaborating a prosopopoeia involving Hypnos, god of sleep, a figure dispelling the effects of reading - the hypnoticon. Eisenhauer reads Hoelderlin in the context of Pindar, philosophical idealism, and autobiographical projection.
| ISBN: | 9780820472522 |
| Publication date: | 3rd June 2004 |
| Author: | Robert G Eisenhauer |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 380 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Medieval Western philosophy |