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Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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Myths are a central part of our reality. But merely debunking them lets us forget why they are created in the first place and why we need them. André Fischer d
The Longing for Myth in Germany
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Authors: George S. Williamson
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-07 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Since the dawn of Romanticism, artists and intellectuals in Germany have maintained an abiding interest in the gods and myths of antiquity while calling for a n
The Forces of Form in German Modernism
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Authors: Malika Maskarinec
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-15 - Publisher: Northwestern University Press

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The Forces of Form in German Modernism charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and e
The German Epic in the Cold War
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Authors: Matthew D. Miller
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Matthew Miller’s The German Epic in the Cold War explores the literary evolution of the modern epic in postwar German literature. Examining works by Peter Wei
Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance
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Pages: 273
Authors: Aneta Mancewicz
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This collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and t