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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... relation to the psyche of an individual writer , we have got to develop some adequately historical sense of what it could possibly have been intended to ' mean , ' as a complex of intention designed rationally to communicate between an ...
... relation to the psyche of an individual writer , we have got to develop some adequately historical sense of what it could possibly have been intended to ' mean , ' as a complex of intention designed rationally to communicate between an ...
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... relations than are yet known between remote periods of history & the present moment . . . . Homer , Greece , Rome ... relation to history was a necessary first step to self - reliance . The main purpose of the essay on history is to ...
... relations than are yet known between remote periods of history & the present moment . . . . Homer , Greece , Rome ... relation to history was a necessary first step to self - reliance . The main purpose of the essay on history is to ...
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... in Unity . Swedenborg , the mystic , stands for the perception of the world as symbol and the primary relation of mind to matter . Montaigne , the skeptic , is the archetype of the reasonable man , the man of cool , 86 EMERSON.
... in Unity . Swedenborg , the mystic , stands for the perception of the world as symbol and the primary relation of mind to matter . Montaigne , the skeptic , is the archetype of the reasonable man , the man of cool , 86 EMERSON.
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