Gli Atridi di Gerhart Hauptmann

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dc.contributor.author	Fornaro Sotera
dc.title	Gli Atridi di Gerhart Hauptmann
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	The Atriden Tetralogie (1940‑45) by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862‑1946) does not express, as was thought after the war, the poet’s resistance to Nazism: on the contrary, the work conforms to the Nazi aesthetics and ideology imposed on the interpretation of the myth since the Oresteia of 1936, staged on the occasion of the Olympic Games. Hauptmann, however, re-functionalises the myth to express the emotional atmosphere of Germany during the war, to exalt sacrifice for the homeland and blind faith in the Führer, to represent the horror of defeat and the horror of the German cities reduced to ashes by bombing. In the last tragedy of the tetralogy, Electra, Hauptmann poses the problem of German guilt for the horrors of World War II.
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Supplements
dc.relation.ispartof	Lexis Studies in Greek and Latin Literature
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-07-07
dc.dateAccepted	2022-11-04
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-11-02
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-709-8/gli-atridi-di-gerhart-hauptmann/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-709-8/010
dc.identifier.issn	2210-8866
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3362
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-736-4
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-709-8
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Atriden
dc.subject	Gerhart Hauptmann
dc.subject	Nazism
dc.subject	Tragedy
dc.subject	World War II

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Gli Atridi di Gerhart Hauptmann

Sotera Fornaro Università degli Studi della Campania «Luigi Vanvitelli», Italia

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The Atriden Tetralogie (1940‑45) by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862‑1946) does not express, as was thought after the war, the poet’s resistance to Nazism: on the contrary, the work conforms to the Nazi aesthetics and ideology imposed on the interpretation of the myth since the Oresteia of 1936, staged on the occasion of the Olympic Games. Hauptmann, however, re-functionalises the myth to express the emotional atmosphere of Germany during the war, to exalt sacrifice for the homeland and blind faith in the Führer, to represent the horror of defeat and the horror of the German cities reduced to ashes by bombing. In the last tragedy of the tetralogy, Electra, Hauptmann poses the problem of German guilt for the horrors of World War II.

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July 7, 2023

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Nov. 4, 2022

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Nov. 2, 2022

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Keywords: Tragedy • Nazism • Gerhart Hauptmann • World War II • Atriden

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