Orfeus and the Maenads

The Death of Orpheus, detail from a silver kantharos, 420-410 BCE, part of the Vassil Bojkov collection, Sofia, Bulgaria. Photo source: Wikipedia.

Orfeus and the Maenads: Two Modes of Ecstatic Discourse in Stagnelius’s Bacchanterna (1822). This essay first appeared in Scandinavian Studies, Winter 1992, Vol. 4, No. 1, 26-52. It was reprinted in Mary Denison (ed.), Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, 61, Detroit: Gale Research, 1997, 264-277.

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