Witches—Construction and Function of a Myth
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https://doi.org/10.14766/586Keywords:
Feminismus, Hexen, Nation, Neuzeit, Rassismus, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
Felix Wiedemann’s dissertation presents a study of modern images of witches. Based on comprehensive work with sources he analyses the development and reception of the witch conception in the 19th and 20th centuries. Familiar motifs include the witch as a wise woman and as a persecuted woman who rebels against Christian traditions. Wiedemann examines the significance of the witch myth as a screen onto which desires, ideals, and images of the self and the other are projected. In so doing, he concentrates on the folk movement, new paganism, and feminism and teases out parallels between the respective recourse to the witch image in each. Wiedemann sees the dominance of a positive image of the witch as the unifying moment of these otherwise so varied movements, an image which according to Wiedemann has its origin in literary and mythological constructs of the 19th century.Downloads
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2008-03-04
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