Myths of EuropeBRILL, 2007. jan. 1. - 296 oldal 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 debate. How far are the myths by which Europe has defined itself for centuries relevant to its role in global politics after 9/11? Can ‘Old Europe’ maintain its traditional identity now that the European Union includes countries previously supposed to be on its periphery? How has Europe handled relations with the non-European Other in the past and how is it reacting now to an influx of immigrants and asylum seekers? It becomes clear that founding myths such as Hamlet and St Nicholas have helped construct the European consciousness but also that these and other European myths have disturbing Eurocentric implications. Are these myths still viable today and, if so, to what extent and for what purpose? This volume sits on the interface between culture and politics and is important reading for all those interested in the transmission of myth and in both the past and the future of Europe. |
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Acknowledgments | 7 |
Myths of Europe and Myths of Europe | 9 |
Myths and Muddles | 21 |
Electras and Hamlet | 35 |
Ted Hughess Tales from Ovid | 51 |
Adonis and Heracles | 61 |
Transition and Continuity of a European Myth | 73 |
Drydens Amphitryon and its Sources | 89 |
Places of Myth in Ireland | 155 |
Romantic MythMaking in Novaliss Europa | 171 |
the Victorian Myth of European Superiority | 183 |
Travel Writing on Europes Eastern Border | 197 |
Britain and European Immigration during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | 213 |
Turkeys Westward Development through AngloSaxon Eyes | 223 |
Marino Marini and the Undermining and Destruction of the Classical European Horseman | 235 |
PostCold War Europe on the British Stage | 247 |
Fielding Traditions and a Dantesque Reading of Tom Jones | 101 |
Between Myth and Astronomy in the Age of the Enlightenment | 113 |
Incarnation of Ideas | 123 |
Myth and the Folklore of the Sea in Conrad | 133 |
Some Differentiations within the Concepts of Myth | 147 |
The Myth of the Etruscans in Travel Literature in English | 263 |
The Myth of the European Civil War | 275 |
Notes on Contributors | 291 |
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Adam Bede Aegisthus Alcmena Amphitryon ancient border Britain British women Cambridge University Press Carandente character Christian church classical Conrad construction contemporary Daniel Deronda Dante Dante’s discourse divine Dryden East eastern Electra Eliot Empire English essay Etruscan Europe Europe’s European Civil European Civil War European culture Faber Falk Fascist fiction frontier George Eliot German Greek Hamlet Heracles Holocaust human ibid idea ideological immigration imperial Indian women Ireland Irish Italian Italy Jews John Jones Joseph Conrad legend literary literature London Marini Marino Marini Mayes Metamorphoses modern Molière moon mythical mythology myths of Europe narrative Nazi Nazism Novalis Novalis’s novel Orestes Ottoman Ovid Ovid’s Oxford University Press Paris Plautus play political race racial reference Richard Littlejohns Romantic Rome Russell Sarah Kane sense social society Sophocles Sosia Soviet St Nicholas story symbolic Tony Kushner tradition Turkey’s Turkish Tuscan twentieth century Victorian violence western York