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Title: Myths in Disguise

Myths in Disguise

by Michał Głowiński (Author) Jan Burzynski (Editor)
©2018 Monographs 200 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Open Access
Series: Cross-Roads, Volume 10

Summary

This book presents a collection of essays discussing a 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. The book is an excellent, thought-provoking lesson in understanding the signs of contemporary culture and a fascinating journey through its complex trails.

Table Of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • About the author
  • About the book
  • Citability of the eBook
  • 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
  • Bibliographical note

Michał Głowiński

Myths in Disguise

Translated by Grzegorz Czemiel and Stanley Bill

Edited by Jan Burzyński

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The Publication is funded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland as a part of the National Programme for the Development of the Humanities.

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Cover Design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg

Cover Image: Courtesy of Benjamin Ben Chaim

Printed by CPI books GmbH, Leck

ISSN 2191-6179

ISBN 978-3-631-67430-7 (Print)

E-ISBN 978-3-653-06871-9 (E-PDF)

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DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-06871-9

© Michał Głowiński, 2018

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About the author

The Author

Michał Głowiński is Professor of Polish Literature at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous books and essays devoted to contemporary literature, literary criticism, and the history of propaganda in the twentieth-century Communist regime in Poland.

About the book

Myths in Disguise

This book presents a collection of essays discussing a 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. The book is an excellent, thought-provoking lesson in understanding the signs of contemporary culture and a fascinating journey through its complex trails.

Citability of the eBook

This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.

1The mask of Dionysus

And Semele, daughter of Cadmus was joined with him in love

and bore him a splendid son, joyous Dionysus,

Details

Pages
200
Publication Year
2018
ISBN (ePUB)
9783631709115
ISBN (MOBI)
9783631709122
ISBN (PDF)
9783653068719
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631674307
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-06871-9
Open Access
CC-BY-NC-ND
Language
English
Publication date
2018 (December)
Keywords
History of literature Literary Criticism History of culture History of myths Semiotics
Published
Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2018. 199 pp.
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Biographical notes

Michał Głowiński (Author) Jan Burzynski (Editor)

Michał Głowiński is Professor of Polish Literature at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has authored numerous books and essays devoted to contemporary literature, literary criticism, and the history of propaganda in the twentieth-century Communist regime in Poland.

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