Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Guerra, Gabriele

Titel

Il re del Carnevale? Raccontare i miti a Weimar

Ist Teil von

• LEA ; Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente, 2020-01, Vol.9 (9), p.293-583

Ort / Verlag

Firenze: Firenze University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Between 1927 and 1928 two curious studies were published in Germany with an historical-religious issue: Historische Psychologie des Karnevals by Florens Christian Rang, and a volume of dialogues – retracing the structure of the Macrobio’s Saturnalia – by Werner Hegemann, Der gerettete Christus, oder Iphigenies Flucht vor dem Ritualopfer. In both texts we find the theme of the “king of the Saturnalia”, which – based on previous fragile conjectural interpretations by James George Frazer, that hypothesized a parallel between the sacrifice of the roman Saturnal-king and the crucifixion of Christ – is interpreted as the sovereign of a carnivalesque interregnum that subverts the order of the cosmos, and founds in this space-time alternation a model of “closed destiny” from which man incessantly tries to escape.