Thesis
Popular history and fiction: the myth of August the Strong in German literature, art, and media
- Abstract:
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This thesis concerns the function of fiction in the creation of an historical myth and the uses that that myth is put to in a number of periods and differing régimes. Its case study is the popular myth of August the Strong (1670-1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, as a man of extraordinary sexual prowess and the ruler over a magnificent, but frivolous, court in Dresden. It examines the origins of this myth in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, and its development up t...
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+ Watanabe-O'Kelly, H
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
German
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2011
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6496
- Deposit date:
- 2012-10-05
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Brook, M
- Copyright date:
- 2011
- Notes:
- Some parts of this thesis cannot be made available via ORA due to copyright reasons
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