Mazeppa-Maseppa
Migration of a Romantic motif
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10836718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tony Voss (University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 110-135 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Tydskrif vir letterkunde (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0041-476X • E-ISSN: 2309-9070 |
| Publisher | Academy of Science of South Africa (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.4314/tvl.v49i2.9 |
| OpenAlex | W2025115650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
Mazeppa (1640–1710), The Ukrainian leader and folk-hero, has a controversial history, and a distinct presence in literature and the graphic arts. Byron’s poem (1819) of the legendary figure’s “wild ride” released a mythical energy which absorbed certain French poets and painters of the 19th century. While the Russian tradition, at least from Pushkin’s Poltava (1828), reworked the historical Ukrainian hetman from a Tsarist and nationalist perspective, the myth of the Western Romantic Mazeppa is best realised by Delacroix, perhaps in anticipation of the displacement of the horse by Faustian technology. Mazeppa becomes a Romantic Phaethon, shifted from the transcendent to the mundane, from a vertical to a horizontal trajectory. Early in the century Mazeppa had also become a figure and theme of popular spectacle and literature, incorporated by the common imagination into politics, journalism and folklore, coming to terms with a new Faustian context. A small group of poets of the 1920s and 1930s return in different Modernist ways to the theme. The coda of this selective survey is sounded in South Africa
Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Folklore · HERO · Literature · Motif (music · Poetry · Politics · Romance · Romanticism · Theme (computing · Central European national history · History · Musicology and Musical Analysis · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |