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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... figure's weak points and failures . Emerson as much as says that we are not to be intimidated by great men , but encour- aged , and ... figures , symbolic heroes in whom we recognize ourselves . Emerson makes the reader believe in their ...
... figure's weak points and failures . Emerson as much as says that we are not to be intimidated by great men , but encour- aged , and ... figures , symbolic heroes in whom we recognize ourselves . Emerson makes the reader believe in their ...
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... figures with the idea of evolution : The figures of serpents , of griffins , flying dragons , and other embel- lishments of heraldry , the eastern idea of the world on an elephant , that on a tortoise , and that on a serpent again , etc ...
... figures with the idea of evolution : The figures of serpents , of griffins , flying dragons , and other embel- lishments of heraldry , the eastern idea of the world on an elephant , that on a tortoise , and that on a serpent again , etc ...
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... figures of Ahab and the white whale , not only how myths are generated but how it is that such figures and stories can gain such a powerful hold on the imagination . Insofar as we accept Ahab and the white whale as real ( in the same ...
... figures of Ahab and the white whale , not only how myths are generated but how it is that such figures and stories can gain such a powerful hold on the imagination . Insofar as we accept Ahab and the white whale as real ( in the same ...
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