Mystik und Gewalt in Gustave Flauberts ‚La Légende de saint Julien l’Hospitalier‘ Beitrag Steffen Schneider Comparatio, Volume 7 (2015), Issue 1, Page 53 - 74 [...] ‘The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller’ is full of religious elements alluding to the tradition of mysti-cism. The present article analyzes the functions of these elements on different levels of the text: at first, mysticism serves as a means to construct the action and to depict the protagonist (i.e. his passage from the warrior to the ascetic saint); furthermore it provides the semanti [...]