NDLI: Christa Wolfs Kurze Reise in Den Mythos(Verpasste) Chancen Des Kassandra-Projekts

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Author	Weinhold, Ulrike
Copyright Year	2004
Abstract	Christa Wolf's Cassandra Project – her story Cassandraand the series of lectures entitled Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung: Kassandra (Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen) – has tended to be viewed in the scientific debate in the context of contemporary discourse theories and to be described as a ‘mythical (counter-)model’ which, seen from a specifically female angle, yields a critical perspective on mythical traditions informed by male ideologies. According to academic consensus, the Cassandra Project undermines mythological traditions and is itself anything but a myth – it is a new discourse. However, this article endeavours to show that the Cassandra Project – especially when primarily read in the light of the implications of the Voraussetzungen – succeeds to a certain extent in linking the critical position of a female subject to remythicisation. As a result, even Wolf's literary language transcends the level of a discourse. In accordance with her aesthetic, anthropological and ultimately social goals, experiences and perceptions (during her journey to Greece) play a crucial part in this remythicisation. Here she fundamentally parts company with post-structuralist doctrine, in which linguistic discourses predominate, ruling out myth and remythicisation. At the same time, however, in allowing the Cassandra Project to be dominated by the ‘conditioning of suffering’, which corresponds to the dominant (male) Western discourse and history of ‘learning through suffering’, Wolf has let slip an important opportunity. Her manner of remythicisation ultimately fails to make use of the potential – actually referred to in the Voraussetzungen – of the forgotten/repressed myth, discourse and reality of the peaceful, happy and highly female-oriented Minoan culture of ancient Crete, the first ‘cradle of Europe’.
Starting Page	587
Ending Page	613
Page Count	27
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	88
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2004-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Comparative Linguistics Comparative Literature Historical Linguistics Philology Syntax
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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