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Hofmannsthal ‘contaminatore’?
2006-08-23T07:15:29Z
Abstract
By analogy with the ancient concept, one can also define 'contamination' as transformation of classical models operated by dramatists of the twentieth century; this practice, of course, inevitably involves changing the terms of the relationship with the 'past'. Hofmannsthal was, in this, a master and a paradigm: especially in his Elektra, in his Ägyptische Helena and his Ariadne auf Naxos, he not only contaminated various ancient texts, but filtered his ancient models through some central aspects of modern theater and contemporary culture.
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Polymnia. Studi di Filologia Classica 4
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it
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