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  1. Who are “Prometheus' Heirs”? : Cultural circulations of Prometheus narratives in discourses of literature and labour
    Autor*in: Heinritz, Alena
    Erschienen: 31.07.2025

    The cultural transfers of the reference to the antique figure of Prometheus are legion. These varying narratives go back to different representations: on the one hand, Prometheus is a trickster who brought toil to humanity and tore them from their... mehr

     

    The cultural transfers of the reference to the antique figure of Prometheus are legion. These varying narratives go back to different representations: on the one hand, Prometheus is a trickster who brought toil to humanity and tore them from their primaeval paradisiacal state (Hesiod, Diogenes); on the other hand, it is the philanthropist who brought culture and craftsmanship to humanity with fire, enabling them to master nature (Aeschylus). Prometheus can be found as a symbolic figure for civilisation, culture, and progress, for science, technology and industry, or for rebellion, emancipation, and self-realisation, in many genres and is referred to in literary as well as political, philosophical, and cultural studies texts. [...] Both “literature” and "work" describe a relationship between human agency and the world, the conception of which is subject to historical change. Both relations are discursively shaped. This paper explores how these relations are elaborated in literary texts with reference to the Prometheus figure. The paper compares fictional and non-fictional texts that take the Prometheus figure as a starting point to reflect on the relationship between literature and labour.

     
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