„Kultureller Fundamentalismus" oder „Pluralität der Identitäten"? Antworten in dichterischer Fiktion von Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué und Hans-Christ
"Cultural Fundamentalism" or "Plurality of Identities"? Answers in fiction by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and Hans-Christian Andersen

Summary/Abstract: The author takes the current discussion about „Cultural Fundamentalism" on the one hand and a „Plurality of Identities" on the other hand as a starting point of an unusual interpretation. Thereby, she focuses on two fictional texts: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's “Undine” (1811) and Hans-Christian Andersen's “The Little Mermaid” (1837), and finds that both poets have a clear opinion about the above mentioned discourse - if one reads the texts as a clash of two different cultures

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