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From the Past to the Future

The Role of Mythology from Winckelmann to the Early Schelling

by Daniel Greineder (Author)
©2007 Monographs 230 Pages

Summary

The call by German Early Romantic writers for a new mythology is one of the boldest and most unusual demands by any literary theorist. This study asks how an age which variously saw mythology as a historical phenomenon or a collection of artistically useful images came to see the need for its renewal at all. The author traces the evolving role of mythology in the writings of Winckelmann, Herder, Moritz and Schiller and argues that the late eighteenth century saw the emergence of a new conception of mythology which depended less on an established iconography and cultural context and more on the poetic and linguistic functions of mythology. This dehistoricized view of mythology formed the basis of the Romantic project and the author examines the works of Friedrich Schlegel and Schelling as well as the Älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus against that background.

Details

Pages
230
Publication Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783039110636
Language
English
Keywords
Romantik Literatur Mythology Imagination Myth Naive Mythology Pantheism Metaphor Mythologie
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2007. 230 pp.

Biographical notes

Daniel Greineder (Author)

The Author: Daniel Greineder read Philosophy and Modern Languages at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he went on to complete a doctoral thesis which forms the basis of this study. He subsequently studied Law at City University, London, and was called to the Bar in 2005.

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