The Mythical Imaginary of Goethe’s Faust

This article vindicates the mythical character of the Faustian tragedy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by relating its plot configuration with the hero’s symbolic itinerary. For this, the mythical structures predetermined by Gilbert Durand, Lévi-Strauss and Joseph Campbell are taken as a basis. In the...

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Autor: de Faramiñán Fernández-Fígares, Juan Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Interpretatio. Revista de Hermenéutica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/285
Acceso en línea:https://revistas-filologicas.unam.mx/interpretatio/index.php/in/article/view/285
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Palabra clave:Faust
Goethe
myth
hero
symbol
Fausto
mito
héroe
símbolo
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Sumario:This article vindicates the mythical character of the Faustian tragedy of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe by relating its plot configuration with the hero’s symbolic itinerary. For this, the mythical structures predetermined by Gilbert Durand, Lévi-Strauss and Joseph Campbell are taken as a basis. In the first two sections Faust is diachronically compared with the mythical figure of the hero, and in the next two sections, each part of the work is related in a synchronic and specific way to the proper mythemes of the hero myth.