Mythological school

Romantic literary movement

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  • In Aleksandr Afanasev

    …of the theories of the Mythological school, a 19th-century Romantic literary movement that drew its inspiration from folklore. The Mythological school was grounded in the aesthetic philosophy of F.W. von Schelling and the brothers August Wilhelm and Friedrich von Schlegel, who saw in mythology a form of “natural religion.”

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