"To turn the gazer's spirit into stone”: Deutsche und britische Medusen in der Repräsentationskrise des 19. Jahrhunderts
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| 520 | 3 | |a This essay explores the reception of the Medusa myth in 19th-century German and British writing, with Foucault's thesis of a shift from a taxonomic order to an episteme centered on the human being as a starting point. In the texts studied, the Medusa myth becomes a highly charged site of both epistemic reassurance and unsettling. The Medusan scenes in Goethe's work testify to an attempt at setting at rest the discontents of human self-representation by underscoring the gender difference between the male hero / onlooker and the female figure looked at. In contrast, Shelley's ekphrastic poem - in many ways a reaction to Goethe's Medusa - imagines the collapse of all differences underlying human representation and points up the violence both within representation and in a world without it. Thus, what Shelley passes on to later writers is a problem and not a solution. William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones' text-image collaborations on the Medusa myth introduce the male hero / onlooker as a representational object. Thereby, however, epistemic differentiations are not reinstalled but once more unsettled in what is in one case an uncanny human sameness under an all-encompassing representational order and in the other the detachment of a female discourse. The latter dimension is further explored in C. F. Meyer's brilliant Medusa poem of 1892 - another instance of across-the-Channel reception -, which points the way towards the feminist episteme advocated in some 20th-century readings of the myth. Taken together, however, the Medusa receptions of the 19th century warn against segregationist reactions to the challenge of human representation. | |
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