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1 online resource (143 pages) |
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; PART I; PATER SEMPER INCERTUS EST; MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL, WHO'S THE MOST POSTDRAMATIC OF THEM ALL?; PART II; LANGUAGE, TRAUMA AND EXAGGERATED FICTION; MYTHS THAT SHAPED THE EXILE EXPERIENCE OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN JEWISH REFUGEES IN JAPANESE-OCCUPIED SHANGHAI; PART III; THE COMPENSATION OF THIALFI AND RØSKVA; CULTURAL INTEGRATION IN GERMANY AND THE MYTHS OF TOLERANCE; PART IV; ODINIC ELEMENTS IN THE NORTHERN SIGURĐR LEGEND; FLASHBACKS, FANTASIES AND RESISTANCE IN JUREK BECKER'S JACOB THE LIAR; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX |
| Summary |
Myth presents the latest interdisciplinary research by graduate students in the fields of German and Scandinavian studies, compiling papers that were introduced at the eponymous 2008 graduate student conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Focusing on myths in and about German and Scandinavian societies, these essays provide exemplary analyses of how cultural and social practices mutually inform and influence each other. This anthology is primarily intended for scholars acros .. |
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Print version record |
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Mythology, Germanic -- Congresses
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Mythology, Norse -- Congresses
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Folklore -- Germany -- Congresses
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Folklore -- Scandinavia -- Congresses
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European history.
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Literary studies: general.
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Cultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Folklore
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Mythology, Germanic
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Mythology, Norse
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Germany
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Scandinavia
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lenshyn, Victoria
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| ISBN |
9781443815130 |
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1443815136 |
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