The Deadly Post-Cramp of the Womb. The Antique-Christian Dialectic and Its Variability in The Bride of Corinth by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
and in The Drowned Woman by Taras Shevchenko Cover Image

Der tödliche Nachkrampf des Schoßes. Die antik-christliche Dialektik und ihre Variabilität in Die Braut von Korinth von Johann Wolfgang Goethe und in Die Ertrunkene von Taras Schewtschenko
The Deadly Post-Cramp of the Womb. The Antique-Christian Dialectic and Its Variability in The Bride of Corinth by Johann Wolfgang Goethe and in The Drowned Woman by Taras Shevchenko

Author(s): Andrzej Pilipowicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: German literature; Ukrainian literature; Christianity; Antiquity; womb

Summary/Abstract: The article shows the relationship between the mothers and the doughters in thecontext of the Antique-Christian antagonism. The conflict caused by the belonging of thewomen to the adverse cultures leads to the doughters’ death that bears signs of an adjournedmiscarriage.

  • Issue Year: 2/2013
  • Issue No: XV
  • Page Range: 149-163
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: German