Between Blinding and Enlightening: On Auden, Myth and Knowledge
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Between Blinding and Enlightening: On Auden, Myth and Knowledge
Original language description
James George Frazer and Sigmund Freud confirmed the sustained but divided critical interest in myth characterizing modernity and ranging from eschewal to espousal. The Enlightenment thinker Bernard de Fontenelle treated myth as a superstitious obstacle to understanding. For the Romantics, mythopoeic sensibility provided a “vital way of knowing the world” and a welcome alternative to abstracting reason. W. H. Auden was a novice poet forming his poetic voice in the 1920s when anthropology and psychology were inspiring the early generation of modernists to the use of the “mythical method” as a means of grasping the present. In this context, Auden also pondered deeply over myth and its relevance to contemporary poetry and society. This paper aims to examine Auden’s ruminations on the category of myth for its capacity to deliver knowledge and enlightenment, but also blind and manipulate man and his consciousness. First, the present paper focuses on Auden’s understanding of myth as a discourse for establishing useful and fruitful connections between the past and the present with the hope of broadening our awareness of the underlying attributes of the condition humaine. Then, it also proposes a counter-movement, drawing attention to Auden’s suspicion of condemnable collective narratives with the potential to shade truth.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Polish Journal of English Studies
ISSN
2545-0131
e-ISSN
2543-5981
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
19-33
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