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A Concept of Human Destiny in Western Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

Hans Egon Holthusen
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Extract

My contribution to this year's conference of the Modern Language Association is an inquiry which can hardly be reduced to concrete terms: Meaning and Destiny in Western Literature. And yet our attention is to be engaged by five concrete literary figures—symbolic not only of the spirit of the people in whose languages they originated, but of the spirit and soul of the European community as a whole. They have been familiar to you from your youth—as familiar as the skyline of your native mountains, or your cities, or as any landmark in the town of your childhood: Oedipus, Hamlet, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Faust.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , May 1960 , pp. 1 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1960

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An address given at a General Meeting of the Modern Language Association of America in Chicago, 28 December 1959.