Myth : German and Scandinavian studies / edited by Evan Torner and Victoria Lenshyn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pater semper incertus est: The Dialectics of Male Sexuality in Strindberg's The Father and A Dreamplay / Jonas Karlsson -- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Most Postdramatic of them All? Elfriede Jelinek's Der Tod und das Mädchen I / Anna Zimmer -- Part II: Imagined Communities - Myths of Solidarity -- Language, Trauma and Exaggerated Fiction: Debunking East German Ideology on the "Jewish Question" in Jurek Becker's Bronstein's Children / Victoria Lenshyn -- Myths that Shaped the Exile Experience of Central European Jewish Refugees in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai / Diane Liu -- Part III: Constructing the Social through Myth -- The Compensation of Thialfi and Røskva: A Myth of Child Exposure / Kevin Richards -- Cultural Integration in Germany and the Myths of Tolerance / Katelyn Petersen -- Part IV: Mythic Constructions of Wisdom and the Psyche -- Odinic Elements in the Northern Sigurðr Legend: A Re-Reading of Fáfnismál / Adam Oberlin -- Flashbacks, Fantasies and Resistance in Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar / Delene White.