Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction: Myth in the Modern Novel? 1
5. Part I: Assimilation and Amalgamation: Myth and Modernity
6. Chapter 1 Imagining the Absolute: Herder’s Rehabilitation of Myth 55
7. Chapter 2 The Early Romantic Idea of a New Mythology: Poeticising the World in Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen 80
8. Chapter 3 Thomas Mann’s Joseph and His Brothers: The Myth of Evolving Humanity 116
9. Chapter 4 The Material Imagination in Michel Tournier’s Friday 168
10. Chapter 5 From Traditional to Modern Use of Tribal Myths in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony 224
11. Chapter 6 Torgny Lindgren: Religious Mythopoiesis and Its Modern Surrogates 257
12. Part II: Maintaining the Distinction: Myth or Modernity
13. Chapter 7 The Night Side of Nature in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s The Devil’s Elixirs 295
14. Chapter 8 Myth and Science in Zola’s Naturalism 338
15. Chapter 9 Germanness and Mythic Evil in Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus 381
16. Chapter 10 Christa Wolf’s Cassandra and Medea: Myth as a Disguise for a Critique of Contemporary Society 422
17. Chapter 11 Milan Kundera: The Search beyond Myth for the Authentic Individual 458
18. Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Myth 488
19. Literature 501
20. Name Index 541