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The meta-tragic experience of Kassandra: the symbolic revelation of a new religious experience as criticism on moral degeneration in modern culture Universiteit Gent
Despite the vast research on revisions of ancient myths in early 20th century European literature(52), the German drama-adaptation (1915) of the Kassandra myth, written by the neoclassical author Paul Ernst (1866-1933), has received only little scholarly interest. This drama presents a complex intermixture of ancient and modern as well as mythical and mystical motives. In this article, I analyze the symbolical meaning of the mythical Trojan ...
Tragödie, Religion und Sittlichkeit: eine Untersuchung der Wiederbelebung 'des Tragischen' und 'der Tragödie' in den Schriften Paul Ernsts (1866-1933) Universiteit Gent
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Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Les Mouches' (1943): a classical tragedy revised as a pièce de résistance Universiteit Gent
During the last decades, reception studies of classical antiquity have been highlighting how formal and substantive aspects of classical antiquity live on in modern and extra-European cultures. However, the reception of classical myth and tragedy in the French theatre at the beginning of the 20th century has not yet been subjected to a profound investigation. In 1943, during the German occupation of Paris (1940-1944), the French philosopher ...