Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance
Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 1978
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780835766845
Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher :
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 1978
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9780835766845
Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : Bloomington : Indiana University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
There are perhaps as many definitions of myth as of romanticism, but a renewed interest in myth as "authentic tidings of invisible things" is one of the most commonly remarked characteristics of early nineteenth-century literature. American writers from Emerson to Melville were very well read in myth and in mythic theory and were highly conscious of myth as a subject of special interest to the age. Richardson shows how our major writers consciously understood and used myth. - Jacket flap.
Author : Lee Robert Newcomer
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,45 MB
Release : 1971
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : F. O. Matthiessen
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 1957
Category :
ISBN :
Author : María Eugenia & Díaz
Publisher : Universidad de Salamanca
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 12,30 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9788478008513
Author : Douglas Bush
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN :
Author : F. O. Matthiessen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1968-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199726884
Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.
Author : Harry Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,14 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Golden age (Mythology) in literature
ISBN :
Author : Roberto González Echevarría
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822321941
Discusses the theory of the origin and evolution of the Latin American narrative and the emergence of the modern novel.
Author : Christopher D. Felker
Publisher : Christopher Felker
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555531874
The author uses Thomas Robbins' 1820 edition of Mather's work to show how a Puritanical political sentiment prompted American Renaissance writers to address the implications of democracy. Hawthorne, Stoddard, and Stowe used Mather's work to discover the importance of democratic concepts and categori