Myth and Literature in the American RenaissanceThere 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. |
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... arts , and the migration of colonies ) it gives the history of religion with some closeness to the faith of later ... art of reading history through the glass of myth . The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations ...
... arts , and the migration of colonies ) it gives the history of religion with some closeness to the faith of later ... art of reading history through the glass of myth . The philosophical perception of identity through endless mutations ...
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... arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing , and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form ; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue . " 8 For the kind of truth ...
... arts do not affect me as those more venerable arts of hunting and fishing , and even of husbandry in its primitive and simple form ; as ancient and honorable trades as the sun and moon and winds pursue . " 8 For the kind of truth ...
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... art , for he afterwards subsides into his usual stolid work . But the story as told suppresses any mention of the ... artist to make his work come to life . This kind of metamorphosis can fit comfortably into New England his- tory and is ...
... art , for he afterwards subsides into his usual stolid work . But the story as told suppresses any mention of the ... artist to make his work come to life . This kind of metamorphosis can fit comfortably into New England his- tory and is ...
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