Mythic Paradigms in Literature Philosophy and the Arts

<I>Mythic Paradigms in Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts</I> approaches literary and visual texts from the perspective of Hesperian identification and representation. Included is the first translation into English of Fichte’s <I>Supplement of 1801</I>, a document whose content sheds light not only on the atheism controversy of the 1790s, but also on literary/philosophical polarizations in the «Republic of Letters». Condensed from the Hesperian atmospherics of Italy and Latin elegy, <I>Faust II</I> entails a Goethean celebration of auditory and visual sensation. In a text devoted to Shelley, Gregory Corso is seen elaborating a prosopopoeia involving Hypnos, god of sleep, a figure dispelling the effects of reading – the hypnoticon. Eisenhauer reads Hölderlin in the context of Pindar, philosophical idealism, and autobiographical projection.