The Myth and Identity of the Romantic Artist in European Literature: A Self-Constructed Fantasy

ISBN-13: 9780367759360 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Elena Anastasaki

Opis

This study in comparative literature contributes to the understanding of the myth of the artist as a European cultural construct and investigates the processes of personal mythmaking. The construction of romantic identity is studied in an interdisciplinary perspective, insisting on the strategies employed to produce a typology of the artist

O autorze

Elena Anastasaki is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Thessaly (Greece). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Universities of Kent and Paris 8.