The story of Faust is a part of European culture and mythology for five centuries and modified and reflected looking of the society upon some key questions in various transformations. Faust has never been alone in his effort to reach an absolute knowledge and power, even at the expense of his own execration. Other iconic beings of folk literature or folk imagination and fiction following their own ambitions were ahead of him and followed him. The aspect of power as a dominant determinant of not only Faust’s effort became determining element of investigation in submitted article. The author accesses the problem of power in wider social-cultural contexts and looks for matter, origin and symptoms of its attraction following its transformation and possible aesthetical influence on the individual in the work reception and even in personal acting and creating of aesthetical preferences of the recipient.
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The text deals with the novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann as a source of a music-literary poetics and myth-poetics. The archetypical symbol of the shadow is interpreted and amplified through the literary character of Adrian Leverkühn and broader imagination tendencies of art and society in the first half of the 20th century. For this goal have been used approaches of the deep hermeneutics and the analytical psychology. The motif of the Faust has strong potential to express not only an archetype of the shadow, but its present is significant in the time of transformation and changes.
This paper analyses depiction of mythology in novel Mythago Wood written by British fantasy author Robert Holdstock. It points out the fact that author consciously worked with the theory of archetypes and myth structures elaborated by Carl Gustav Jung. Simultaneously, it takes into account cultural background of the story as well as it analyses symbols used in the novel. The paper also defines three levels of the story: familial, meta-mythological and metaphoric and examines use of archetypes and symbols on each of the levels. The results of this analysis are afterwards compared and analysed for similarities and differences, as well as for level of connection with non-fictional mythology of British cultural area. The paper also points out universality and great variability of use of archetypes and symbols in mythologies outside British Isles.
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