Open AccessExhaustion and Recycling
Author(s) -
Attila Simon
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
central european cultures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2786-068X
pISSN - 2786-0671
DOI - 10.47075/cec.2021-2.04
Subject(s) - mythology , symbol (formal) , interpretation (philosophy) , philology , argument (complex analysis) , order (exchange) , poetry , literature , philosophy , epistemology , sociology , aesthetics , art , linguistics , gender studies , feminism , business , biochemistry , chemistry , finance
This paper examines the works of representative modernist authors who have rewritten the myth of the Danaids in a self-reflective way. They reuse certain elements of the myth in order to address some of the crucial issues of cultural transmission: interpretation, poetic tradition and communication. The argument focuses on the recycling of the myth of the Danaids as a symbol of endless historical-philological (Nietzsche) and psychological (Freud) interpretations, the exhaustion and the reinvention of the classical literary tradition (Babits), and the impossible possibility of mediating the living voice through telephonic communication (Proust).