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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... described as feathers " plucked from the live tree . " It is an eerie , almost magical forest in which everything is animated , and it is all the more effective because it is not the allegorical forest of β Young Goodman Brown " or the ...
... described as feathers " plucked from the live tree . " It is an eerie , almost magical forest in which everything is animated , and it is all the more effective because it is not the allegorical forest of β Young Goodman Brown " or the ...
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... through change , of processes that would soon be simplified and labeled evolutionary . What Thoreau has described is Le 2 le 25 JO LCO an C A T P CO P a 0 15 the metamorphosis of nature itself . This process , we 134 THOREAU.
... through change , of processes that would soon be simplified and labeled evolutionary . What Thoreau has described is Le 2 le 25 JO LCO an C A T P CO P a 0 15 the metamorphosis of nature itself . This process , we 134 THOREAU.
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... described by Hawthorne as a β dark realm under the earth β βto haunt her . He is described as a satyr and is associated with a kind of wicked paganism quite different from that associated with Donatello . Indeed , the model comes ...
... described by Hawthorne as a β dark realm under the earth β βto haunt her . He is described as a satyr and is associated with a kind of wicked paganism quite different from that associated with Donatello . Indeed , the model comes ...
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