The Greek God Pan and Decadence

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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Greek God Pan and Decadence
Original language description
My project explores the surge of interest in the motif of the Greek god Pan in the literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially in Decadence. The aim is to find out the reasons for the proliferation of this motif in Anglo-American literature of the period, facilitating a deeper understanding of this period. Significantly, many of the features of Decadence that Pan mirrors can be traced to his trickster nature: subverting moral and social norms, breaching the border between the sacred and the profane, problematising categories of gender and sexuality, and his paradoxical and transitional character, coupled with his function of a mediator. My approach is analytical and intertextual. I compare the various representations of Pan within Decadence, focusing on the aspects they share and explaining how they reflect or subvert some elements of the culture and society of the fin-de-siecle England and America. My principal methods are then close reading and contextual analysis.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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