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Poets of protest : mythological resignification in American antebellum and German Vormärz literature / Michael Rodegang Drescher.
LIBRA PN56.M95 D74 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drescher, Michael Rodegang, author.
- Series:
- American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 18.
- American culture studies ; volume 18
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Myth in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- National characteristics, German, in literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Mythology in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Mythological resignification in American antebellum and German Vormärz literature
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld : Transcript, [2017]
- Summary:
- "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 analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the nature of myth and mythological resignification
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the opening of fences
- Karl Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin and the despair of artificiality
- William Wells Brown's Clotel and the Puritan voyage reversed
- Heinrich Heine's Wintermärchen and the laughter of the age
- Conclusion: the rewriting of foundations.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Heidelberg.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311).
- ISBN:
- 9783837637458
- 383763745X
- OCLC:
- 975159254
- Publisher Number:
- 9783837637458
- 99972578323
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