Myths in Disguise.
By: Burzynski, Jan.
Contributor(s): Nycz, Ryszard | Czemiel, Grzegorz | G�owiński, Micha�.
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BookSeries: Cross-Roads Series: Publisher: Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2018Copyright date: �2018Edition: 1st ed.Description: 1 online resource (202 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783653068719.Genre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- 1 The mask of Dionysus -- 1.1 Myth and cultural equations -- 1.2 In the circle of Nietzsche -- 1.3 Allegro barbaro -- 1.4 The historiosophical metaphor -- 1.5 Poetry and the agora -- 1.6 Dionysus in place of Tyrtaeus -- 1.7 Epilepsy -- 2 Narcissus and his reflections -- 2.1 "A song that runs through the ages" -- 2.2 The symbolist Narcissus -- 2.3 The humble Polish Narcissus -- 2.4 A weird adventure -- 3 That ridiculous Prometheus -- 3.1 An ambiguous hero -- 3.2 On Parisian boulevards -- 3.3 Un-Promethean Prometheus -- 4 A portrait of Marcolf -- 4.1 Superiority in inferiority -- 4.2 The great debate -- 4.3 The ritual clown -- 4.4 Marcolf on the throne -- 5 Labyrinth - the space of alienation -- 5.1 The labyrinth constructed in words -- 5.2 Various closings and openings -- 5.3 Works stretched on myth -- 5.4 City -- 5.5 Prison -- 5.6 The labyrinth of Babel -- 5.7 Internal labyrinths -- 5.8 Labyrinthine storytelling -- 5.9 Claustrophobic view of the world -- Appendix: Richard III and Prometheus - on New Liberation by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- Richard III and Prometheus - on New Liberation by Stanis�aw Ignacy Witkiewicz -- Bibliographical note -- Cross-Roads.
This book presents a collection of essays discussing the history of the five myths of Dionysus, Narcissus, Prometheus, Marcolf, and Labyrinth in twentieth-century literature. The author traces their transformations against the wider backdrop of Polish and European literature.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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