Imagining the Absolute Steinby, Liisa creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut text dictionary gw DE 2023 monographic eng 1 online resource (XII, 545 p.) Myth in the Modern Novel: Imagining the Absolute posits a twofold thesis. First, although Modernity is regarded as an era dominated by science and rational thought, it has in fact not relinquished the hold of myth, a more "primitive" form of thought which is difficult to reconcile with modern rationality. Second, some of the most important statements as to the reconcilability of myth and Modernity are found in the work of certain prominent novelists. This book offers a close examination of the work of eleven writers from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, representing German, French, American, Czech and Swedish literature. The analyses of individual novels reveal a variety of intriguing views of myth in Modernity, and offer an insight into the "modernizing" transformations myth has undergone when applied in the modern novel. The study shows the presence of the "subconscious", the mythic layer, in modern western culture and how this has been dealt with in novelistic literature. Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction: Myth in the Modern Novel? -- Part I: Assimilation and Amalgamation: Myth and Modernity -- Chapter 1 Imagining the Absolute: Herder's Rehabilitation of Myth -- Chapter 2 The Early Romantic Idea of a New Mythology: Poeticising the World in Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen -- Chapter 3 Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers: The Myth of Evolving Humanity -- Chapter 4 The Material Imagination in Michel Tournier's Friday -- Chapter 5 From Traditional to Modern Use of Tribal Myths in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Chapter 6 Torgny Lindgren: Religious Mythopoiesis and Its Modern Surrogates -- Part II: Maintaining the Distinction: Myth or Modernity -- Chapter 7 The Night Side of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Devil's Elixirs -- Chapter 8 Myth and Science in Zola's Naturalism -- Chapter 9 Germanness and Mythic Evil in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus -- Chapter 10 Christa Wolf's Cassandra and Medea: Myth as a Disguise for a Critique of Contemporary Society -- Chapter 11 Milan Kundera: The Search beyond Myth for the Authentic Individual -- Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Myth -- Literature -- Name Index specialized Liisa Steinby. restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. Liisa Steinby, University of Turku, Finland. In English. LITERARY CRITICISM / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology RELIGION / General Mythos Moderne Roman der Moderne Myth modernity modern novel Myth modernity modern novel De Gruyter ZDB-23-23 De Gruyter ZDB-23-78 De Gruyter ZDB-23-DGG De Gruyter ZDB-23-77 De Gruyter 978-3-11-131929-2 EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English De Gruyter ZDB-23-67 De Gruyter ZDB-23-68 9783111026503 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9783111026503 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111026503/original https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9783111026503 https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111026503/original restricted access DE-B1597 260303 20260416115156.0 9783111026503 eng