Poets of Protest : Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vorm?arz Literature.

Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analy...

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Tác giả chính: Michael Rodegang Drescher
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: transcript Verlag, 2016.
Loạt:American Culture Studies ; 18
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  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • The Pushing of Horizons
  • 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Opening of Fences
  • 3. Karl Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin and the Despair of Artificiality
  • The Treading of Pathways
  • 4. William Wells Brown's Clotel and the Puritan Voyage Reversed
  • 5. Heinrich Heine's Wintermärchen and the Laughter of the Age
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Works Cited.