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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... hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation , Lads ahold of fire - engines and hook - and - ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars . 19 This is , it will be recognized , a standard Enlightenment ...
... hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation , Lads ahold of fire - engines and hook - and - ladder ropes no less to me than the gods of the antique wars . 19 This is , it will be recognized , a standard Enlightenment ...
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... hair . A low wail issued from her lips , and she trembled like a sound . " 22 The story of Yillah thus begins in medias res , with the dramatic unveiling of the mystery and the revelation that the closely guarded , divinely prohibited ...
... hair . A low wail issued from her lips , and she trembled like a sound . " 22 The story of Yillah thus begins in medias res , with the dramatic unveiling of the mystery and the revelation that the closely guarded , divinely prohibited ...
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... hair with gold , when one day strolling in the woodlands , she was snared in the tendrils of a vine . Drawing her into its bowers , it gently transformed her into one of its blossoms , leaving her conscious soul folded up in the ...
... hair with gold , when one day strolling in the woodlands , she was snared in the tendrils of a vine . Drawing her into its bowers , it gently transformed her into one of its blossoms , leaving her conscious soul folded up in the ...
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