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Poets of Protest Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature Michael Rodegang Drescher
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drescher, Michael Rodegang <p>Michael Rodegang Drescher, University of Heidelberg, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 18.
- American Culture Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology.
- Antebellum America.
- Vormärz Germany.
- Politics.
- National Identity.
- Narratology.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Karl Gutzkow.
- William Wells Brown.
- Heinrich Heine.
- America.
- Culture.
- American Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- American History.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Mythology.
- Antebellum America.
- Vormärz Germany.
- Politics.
- National Identity.
- Narratology.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne.
- Karl Gutzkow.
- William Wells Brown.
- Heinrich Heine.
- America.
- Culture.
- American Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- American History.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Drescher, Poets of Protest Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2016
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Michael Rodegang Drescher (Dr.) teaches American literature at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests include democracy and aesthetics, cognition, consciousness, and genre theory.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 1. Introduction 9 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Opening of Fences 33 3. Karl Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin and the Despair of Artificiality 105 4. William Wells Brown's Clotel and the Puritan Voyage Reversed 173 5. Heinrich Heine's Wintermärchen and the Laughter of the Age 219 6. Conclusion 283 Works Cited 303
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839437452
- 3839437458
- OCLC:
- 1002231718
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