Water, water, water: female aquatic population in the european litterary biotopos

Abstract

The account of the book : Malý, Radek. Ophelia and her sisters: motif of the drowned girl in the European poetry.

The account examines how the author of the study grasps the history and the presence in literature of the myth of the female aquatic figure which has begun to impose itself considerably since Shakespeare's Ophelia and whose importance is reflected in the rich syncretism of undines, fairies and other similar mythical characters present in almost all European mythologies.

Keywords

• Ophelia
• european poetry
• water
• feminity
• myth