Between Blinding and Enlightening: On Auden, Myth and Knowledge

James George Frazer and Sigmund Freud confirmed the sustained but divided critical interest in myth characterizing modernity and ranging from eschewal to espousal. The Enlightenment thinker Bernard de Fontenelle treated myth as a superstitious obstacle to understanding. For the Romantics, mythopoeic...

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Main Author: Ladislav Vít
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Association for the Study of English 2022-06-01
Series:Polish Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PJES_8-2_2_Vit.pdf