<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>5</ref-type><contributors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The escape backwards as an escape forwards. Moments of demythification in Christa Wolfs Cassandra and Medea</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Myth and Subversion in Contemporary Novel</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"> Cambridge Scholars Publishing</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Newcastle</style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">187-198</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;The aim of this study is to discuss demythification and the subversion of myth in&lt;br&gt;Christa Wolf’s Cassandra Project (1983) and Medea. Stimmen (1996). Wolf&lt;br&gt;considers literature as an archaeological project, as a quest for the truth and the&lt;br&gt;“blind spots” in personal and social history. On this quest she turns her attention to&lt;br&gt;Greek mythology. A myth is not a context, but a frame. It is a supertemporal,&lt;br&gt;multidimensional phenomenon, which allows a writer to move into free spaces.&lt;br&gt;Thus, Wolf’s versions revise the myth in some fundamental points. Her main&lt;br&gt;concern is to shed light on the manipulation of truth and the discrimination of the&lt;br&gt;stranger. The author does not write, however, against the myth per se. On the one&lt;br&gt;hand she points out the close connection between myth and politics and on the&lt;br&gt;other hand she tries to explore the potential of myths in order to understand the&lt;br&gt;present situation better and to look for livable alternatives or yet untried patterns.&lt;br&gt;The reminiscence on the origins of the alienation offers a matrix for the&lt;br&gt;explanation of today’s conditions and at the same time permits a glimpse into the&lt;br&gt;future: “the escape backwards as an escape forwards”.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>