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Dzieciobójstwo jako wyzwanie dla dramatu

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Karamucka M.

Classica Wratislaviensia

2011

vol. 31

21-40

The article aims to examine how the motif of killing a child by one of his parents, regardless of the age of victim (abortion is however excluded from this analysis), functions in dramatic works (practicurally in tragedies) and why it can by treated as a special challenge to present this deed in mentioned type of literature. The analysis bases on the selected dramas — especially the Medea by Euripides. Many other characters noted derive also from the ancient Greek-Roman literature, that often refers to the mythology. At the end is also investigated, why Medea, though the motif of the killing own children is repellent and often not easy be presented, appears continuously in literature (not only in dramatic works).

MEDEA - A MYTHICAL WOMAN IN A NON-MYTHICAL TIME (MEDEA IN GERMAN LITERATURE AFTER 1945) (Medea - myticka zena v nemytickom case (mytus Medey v nemeckej literature po roku 1945))

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Puchalova I.

World Literature Studies

2010

vol. 2 (19)

issue 3

27-38

The article arises from the thesis by the theoretician Hans Blumberg about the 'work of the myth' as the life of mythological narratives constantly evolving in art, which forms the basis of the analysis of the reception of the Medea myth by German women authors after the World War II (A. Seghers, M. L. Kaschnitz, U. Haas, D. Loher, M. H. Novak, Ch. Wolf). The authoress shows the ways in which the Medea myth was brought up-to-date in concrete historical contexts. At the same time, it focuses on the gendering of each literary engagement with the myth and reveals how feminist criticism contributed to the understanding of individual sequences of the ancient narrative. The key issue is the question whether Medea can be accepted as a mythical figure also outside the Euripidean interpretation (Medea as the murderer of her own children).

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Dzieciobójstwo jako wyzwanie dla dramatu

MEDEA - A MYTHICAL WOMAN IN A NON-MYTHICAL TIME (MEDEA IN GERMAN LITERATURE AFTER 1945) (Medea - myticka zena v nemytickom case (mytus Medey v nemeckej literature po roku 1945))