Transformationen des Phaethon-Mythos in der deutschen Literatur
By: Christiane Hansen
Series: Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft -- Spectrum literature -- 29
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: ger
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9783110289862; 9783110290134
Subjects: Phaethon (Greek mythology) in literature; German literature; History and criticism; Mythology, Greek, in literature
Description: The fall of Phaethon, son of the sun god Helios, has been taken up in art and literature as a warning against hubris. The present study analyzes the myth of Phaethon in German literature and its European contexts. Intertextual relations from antiquity to the present are laid out, including works by Euripides, Ovid, Wickram, Gryphius, Schiller, Goethe, Achim von Arnim, Stefan George, Gerhart Hauptmann and Alexander Kluge.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-411) and index.