Wasserfrauen auf Abwegen
Die Transformation des Rusalka-Motivs in der polnischen und russischen Popkultur
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22301397 |
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| Authors | Elisabeth Lechner (0000-0003-4174-819X, Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3, A-1090 Wien), Stefan Simonek (0000-0001-5870-2257, Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3, A-1090 Wien), Marlena Tomala (0000-0001-6472-7098, Universität Wien, Spitalgasse 2, Hof 3, A-1090 Wien) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 197-223 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studia Slavica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3363 • E-ISSN: 1588-290X |
| Publisher | Akademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU) |
| DOI | 10.1556/060.2017.62.1.15 |
| OpenAlex | W2745200006 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Sirens became an essential element of the literary imagination in many European literatures in Romanticism and have remained popular ever since. Also, in Russian and Polish culture, the image of the dangerously alluring and transgressive female nymph called “rusalka” is omnipresent. In this paper, the authors use a comparative approach to trace the evolution of the “rusalka” motif from its creation in the Romantic period to its transformed (and often highly sexualized) use in present-day popular culture. From works written by Pushkin, Lermontov, Mickiewicz as well as Bal’mont and Gumilev (amongst others), we move on to contemporary actualizations of the motif in the music videos and lyrics of a Russian girl group (“Фабрика”), a Polish pop performer (Doda Elektroda) and a Russian folk-metal band (“Alkonost”). We argue that the centuries-old popularity of the “rusalka” motif can be ascribed to the theme’s core semantics of female transgression and adaptability that lends itself especially well to the sphere of pop and its remixing and resignifying practices
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Literature · Lyrics · Motif (music) · Popular culture · Popular music · Popularity · Romanticism · Central European Literary Studies · European Cultural and National Identity · History · Law · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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