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Book Synopsis Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance by : Robert D. Richardson
Download or read book Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance written by Robert D. Richardson and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Classical Mythology in the American Renaissance by : Lee Robert Newcomer
Download or read book Classical Mythology in the American Renaissance written by Lee Robert Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Critical essays on the mith of the american Adam by : María Eugenia & Díaz
Download or read book Critical essays on the mith of the american Adam written by María Eugenia & Díaz and published by Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Renaissance by : F. O. Matthiessen
Download or read book American Renaissance written by F. O. Matthiessen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1968-12-31 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry by : Douglas Bush
Download or read book Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry written by Douglas Bush and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Renaissance by : F. O. Matthiessen
Download or read book American Renaissance written by F. O. Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance by : Christopher D. Felker
Download or read book Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance written by Christopher D. Felker and published by Christopher Felker. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Book Synopsis Studies in the American Renaissance by :
Download or read book Studies in the American Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance by : Christopher N. Phillips
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance written by Christopher N. Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.
Book Synopsis Lost in the Customhouse by : Jerome Loving
Download or read book Lost in the Customhouse written by Jerome Loving and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spirited challenge to dominant American literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the nineteenth century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for prophetic and revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of the last century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society. From Washington Irving to Theodore Dreiser, Loving finds the American literary tradition filled with narrators who keep waking up to the central scene of the author's real or imagined life. They travel through a customhouse of the imagination in which the Old World experience of the present is taxed by the New World of the utopian past, where life is always cyclical instead of linear and ameliorative. Loving argues that the central literary experience in nineteenth-century America is the puritanical desire for the time before the loss of innocence - that endless chance of coming into experience anew. Lost in the Customhouse begins with a discussion of Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson and finds these seminal Renaissance writers waking up primarily to psychological facts which blossomed into the fiction of a self begotten out of the nothingness of experience. In part 2, Loving shifts his attention to the urbanization of the American imagination and discusses Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser. Here the dream-driven impulse is more clearly influenced by social history: abolition, women's suffrage, industrialization, and the growth of professionalism. Loving focuses upon the role of the woman who finds herself on the same frontier as her male precursors - "with nothing but a carpetbag - that is to say, the [American] ego." Throughout the study, Loving challenges the notion that American literature is preponderately "cultural work." In the epilogue, he packs up his own carpetbag and passes through the European customhouse to find that American writers are more readily perceived as literary geniuses outside of their culture than within it.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-century Writing by : J. B. Bullen
Download or read book The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-century Writing written by J. B. Bullen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing a range of authors from Arnold, Browning, and George Eliot, to Ruskin and Voltaire, this innovative study traces the genesis and development of the concept of Renaissance in the literary, political, religious and critical writing of the late-18th and 19th centuries.
Book Synopsis The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance by : Harry Levin
Download or read book The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance written by Harry Levin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis American Renaissance by : Francis Otto Matthiessen
Download or read book American Renaissance written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1941 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. O. Matthiessen has centered his evaluation of the great age of our literature around the chief works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Mr. Matthiessen has made the intensive critical synthesis that has long been needed, taking full advantage of the historical and biographical work that has been done during the past generation. He holds that an artist's use of language is the most sensitive index to cultural history, and consequently approaches our writers through close attention to their own theories of art. He has not only made a more thorough scrutiny of the form and content of "Moby-Dick", "Walden", and "Leaves of Grass" than any heretofore in print; he has also investigated the largely neglected subject of the interrelations between the various writers. His concluding chapter brings all his major writers together through their subject matter and through their varied responses to the myth of the common man. His book thus ends of a comparison between the function of myth in the age of Whitman and Melville and in that of Joyce and Mann. -- From publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Demon of the Continent by : Joshua David Bellin
Download or read book The Demon of the Continent written by Joshua David Bellin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants of American—rather than specifically Native American—literature. The notion that the presence of Indian peoples shaped American literature as a whole remains unexplored. In The Demon of the Continent, Joshua David Bellin probes the complex interrelationships among Native American and Euro-American cultures and literatures from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. He asserts that cultural contact is at the heart of American literature. For Bellin, previous studies of Indians in American literature have focused largely on the images Euro-American writers constructed of indigenous peoples, and have thereby only perpetuated those images. Unlike authors of those earlier studies, Bellin refuses to reduce Indians to static antagonists or fodder for a Euro-American imagination. Drawing on works such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden, William Apess' A Son of the Forest, and little known works such as colonial Indian conversion narratives, he explores the ways in which these texts reflect and shape the intercultural world from which they arose. In doing so, Bellin reaches surprising conclusions: that Walden addresses economic clashes and partnerships between Indians and whites; that William Bartram's Travels encodes competing and interpenetrating systems of Indian and white landholding; that Catherine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie enacts the antebellum drama of Indian conversion; that James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow struggled with Indian authors such as George Copway and David Cusick for physical, ideological, and literary control of the nation. The Demon of the Continent proves Indians to be actors in the dynamic processes in which America and its literature are inescapably embedded. Shifting the focus from textual images to the sites of material, ideological, linguistic, and aesthetic interaction between peoples, Bellin reenvisions American literature as the product of contact, conflict, accommodation, and interchange.
Book Synopsis Writers of the American Renaissance by : Denise Knight
Download or read book Writers of the American Renaissance written by Denise Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century American Renaissance as represented by canonical writers such as Emerson and Poe, covering writers who published popular fiction and dominated the literary marketplace of the day. Included is generous coverage of women writers and writers of color. The volume provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 writers of the period, including Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry was written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.
Book Synopsis The Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance by : Jeffrey Steele
Download or read book The Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance written by Jeffrey Steele and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance
Book Synopsis The American Renaissance and the Critics by : Jeanetta Boswell
Download or read book The American Renaissance and the Critics written by Jeanetta Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
