Title: In the embrace of the swan
Description: Myths determine the way cultures understand themselves. The papers in this volume examine culturally specific myths in Britain and the German-speaking world, and compare approaches to the theory of myth, together with the ways in which mythological formations operate in literature, aesthetics and politics? with a focus on the period around 1800. They enquire into the consequences of myth-oriented discourses for the way in which these two cultures understand each other, and in this way make a significant contribution to a more profound approach to intercultural research. -- From publisher's website.
Subjects: Comparative Literature, Myth in literature, Mythology, Germanic, in literature, German and English, English and German, British Mythology, Myth in art, Mythology in literature, Mythology, germanic, Literatur, Mythos <Motiv>, Künste