Rückkehr ins geschenkte Leben : der Alkestis-Stoff bei Euripides, Hofmannsthal und Rilke
- The present contribution deals with the reception of the figure of Alkestis both in Greek antiquity (Euripides) and in German literature around 1900 (Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Rainer Maria Rilke). The contribution shows on the one hand that already Euripides had problems with the dramatic transformation of the antique mythological narrative into a tragic subject. On the other hand it shows that the two modern versions of the narrative of Alkestis around 1900 deal with it quite differently: Hofmannsthal’s free adaptation of the Euripidean Alkestis shifts the subject matter into a Dionysian context, in the light of Schopenhauer’s and Nietzsche’s philosophy, whereas Rilke implants themes and motifs of his own poetry in the narrative of Alkestis and amalgamates them with it.
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| Author: | Markus Fischer |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-655477 |
| URL: | http://uniblaga.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/37.1.1.pdf |
| ISSN: | 2247-4633 |
| ISSN: | 1454-5144 |
| Parent Title (German): | Germanistische Beiträge |
| Publisher: | Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt |
| Place of publication: | Sibiu / Hermannstadt |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | German |
| Year of Completion: | 2015 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/01/14 |
| Tag: | Euripides; Hofmannsthal; Rilke; The figure of Alkestis; The myth of Dionysus; The reception of Greek antiquity around 1900 |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Page Number: | 18 |
| First Page: | 13 |
| Last Page: | 30 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 490785433 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
| 8 Literatur / 88 Griechische Literaturen / 880 Hellenische Literaturen; Klassische griechische Literatur | |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Germanistische Beiträge / Germanistische Beiträge 37.2015 |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-655454 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
