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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... side by side in the same writer , during the late eighteenth and through at least the middle of the nineteenth century . During this time it was in fact characteristic of American writers to be actively aware of the competing claims of ...
... side by side in the same writer , during the late eighteenth and through at least the middle of the nineteenth century . During this time it was in fact characteristic of American writers to be actively aware of the competing claims of ...
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... side of Emerson accepting myth as something deeply and importantly true is the side that can be traced back through Taylor , Creuzer , Goethe , K. O. Müller , and Herder to Lowth and Blackwell . Emerson had read all of these writers and ...
... side of Emerson accepting myth as something deeply and importantly true is the side that can be traced back through Taylor , Creuzer , Goethe , K. O. Müller , and Herder to Lowth and Blackwell . Emerson had read all of these writers and ...
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... side the inert bank , —for the sun acts on one side first , —and on the other this luxuriant foliage , the creation of an hour , I am affected as if in a peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me ...
... side the inert bank , —for the sun acts on one side first , —and on the other this luxuriant foliage , the creation of an hour , I am affected as if in a peculiar sense I stood in the laboratory of the Artist who made the world and me ...
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