Herder und das 19. Jahrhundert /Herder and the Nineteenth Century
Beiträge zur Konferenz der Internationalen Herder-Gesellschaft, Turku 2018
- 458 páginas
- 17 horas de lectura
Liisa Steinby Libros
1 de enero de 1952
Este autor explora las profundidades de la psique humana con notable empatía y perspicacia. Sus obras a menudo profundizan en las complejidades de las relaciones interpersonales y la búsqueda de la identidad en el mundo moderno. A través de una prosa meticulosamente elaborada e imágenes evocadoras, atrae a los lectores a los mundos íntimos de sus personajes. Su escritura se caracteriza por una profunda comprensión de la naturaleza humana y una capacidad para capturar los matices esquivos de la emoción.
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 modern rationality. Second, some of the most important statements as to the reconcilability of myth and Modernity are found in the work of certain prominent novelists. This book offers a close examination of the work of eleven writers from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, representing German, French, American, Czech and Swedish literature. The analyses of individual novels reveal a variety of intriguing views of myth in Modernity, and offer an insight into the „modernizing“ transformations myth has undergone when applied in the modern novel. The study shows the presence of the „subconscious“, the mythic layer, in modern western culture and how this has been dealt with in novelistic literature.
