Sprachkunst Jahrgang LI/2020, 1. Halbband, pp. 81-110, 2020/08/12
Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
Jahrgang LI/2020, 1. Halbband
This essay expounds the intrinsic relationship between music and myth, first given explicit license in Nietzsche’s ›The Birth of Tragedy‹, and explores how it occurs in Joyce’s ›Ulysses‹ and Mann’s ›Doctor Faustus‹. It juxtaposes Nietzsche’s “Apollo/Dionysus dichotomy” and his conception of “Dionysian music” with Joyce and Mann’s literary depictions of music and myth, thereby elucidating the major themes, characters and narrative of both novels and shedding light on the music-myth configuration.
