The Myphopoetic and Christian Motifs in The Ring of the Löwenskölds Trilogy by Selma Lagerlöf Cover Image

Мифопоэтические и христианские мотивы в трилогии о Лёвеншёльдах С. Лагерлёф
The Myphopoetic and Christian Motifs in The Ring of the Löwenskölds Trilogy by Selma Lagerlöf

Author(s): Ol’ga S. Ivshina, Natalia Nickolaevna Bedina
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Customs / Folklore, Other Language Literature, 18th Century, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Петрозаводский государственный университет
Keywords: Neo-Romanticism; The Ring of the Löwenskölds; Lowenskoldska ringen; trilogy; folk motifs; Christian idea; spiritual transformation;

Summary/Abstract: The peculiarity of S. Lagerlöf’s artistic concept is the coexistence of myth and literature, folklore and Christian tradition, fiction and reality, mysticism and psychology within one text. The research aims to use the motive analysis to trace the peculiarities of the interrelation between folklore and Christian tradition in The Ring of the Löwenskölds trilogy. The first part of the trilogy (“The Ring of the Löwenskölds”) focuses on the folklore demonological story and at the same time the Gothic novel of the late 18th century; the second part (“Charlotte Löwenskölds”) corresponds to the wedding ritual tradition and at the same time implements the genre and stylistic features of the romantic psychological novel of the first half of the 19th century; the third part (“Anna Svärd”) transforms the folklore fairy tale tradition into a literary neoromantic novel of the second half of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, taking into account the realistic literary experience.

  • Issue Year: 16/2018
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 122-150
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Russian