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Joseph Baron of Auffenberg transferred his romantically guided interest in history to Adrianople, the Ottoman capital located in a natural landscape, where the search for features to identify with met alterity expressed in a traditional rich contrast surrounded by twilight. Using the example of Auffenberg's Drama Skanderbeg (1846), the paper examines the extent to which literary reflects patterns of identification in accordance with the poetic currents of the classical period and romanticism, created ideas of the Adriatic Balkan region as a part of a common cultural ground. The locations of caves, ruins and churches reflect a fixed order of ethical value structure, ergo the fictionalization of alterity that shapes identity in historical discourse.
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Skanderbeg by Joseph Baron of Auffenberg
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This page is a summary of: Ein romantisches Bild unter klassischen Vorzeichen: Mittelmeer, Balkan und Orient in von Schwaden umwobenen Höhlen, Ruinen und Kirchen, GEM Germanistica Euromediterrae, September 2019, University of Zadar,
DOI: 10.15291/gem.2862.
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