The volume examines how historically and culturally effective Swiss myths have been re-formed and continued, handed down and criticised especially in more recent Swiss-German literature since the Second World War. With contributors including Adolf Muschg, Peter von Matt and German scholars from Ireland and Great Britainthis volumereflects on important literary contributions to historical and present-day processes of identity-creation, including Switzerland's role in the Second World War, its attitudes towards Europe, Switzerland as a multicultural entity or the many myths about this country.