Download or read book Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance written by Robert D. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance written by Robert D. Richardson and published by Bloomington : Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There 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.
Download or read book Classical Mythology in the American Renaissance written by Lee Robert Newcomer and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biglow Papers written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Renaissance written by F. O. Matthiessen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical essays on the mith of the american Adam written by María Eugenia & Díaz and published by Universidad de Salamanca. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Myth of the Golden Age in the Renaissance written by Harry Levin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1972 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in English Poetry written by Douglas Bush and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Renaissance written by F. O. Matthiessen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1968-12-31 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.
Download or read book Reinventing Cotton Mather in the American Renaissance written by Christopher D. Felker and published by Christopher Felker. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses Thomas Robbins' 1820 edition of Mather's work to show how a Puritanical political sentiment prompted American Renaissance writers to address the implications of democracy. Hawthorne, Stoddard, and Stowe used Mather's work to discover the importance of democratic concepts and categori
Download or read book Allusions and Reflections written by Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world. W ...
Download or read book Studies in the American Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Renaissance written by Christopher N. Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, an iconic turning point in the growth of a national literature and a canon of texts that would shape American fiction, poetry, and oratory for generations. F. O. Matthiessen coined the term in 1941 to describe the years 1850–1855, which saw the publications of major writings by Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. This Companion takes up the concept of the American Renaissance and explores its origins, meaning, and longevity. Essays by distinguished scholars move chronologically from the formative reading of American Renaissance authors to the careers of major figures ignored by Matthiessen, including Stowe, Douglass, Harper, and Longfellow. The volume uses the best of current literary studies, from digital humanities to psychoanalytic theory, to illuminate an era that reaches far beyond the Civil War and continues to shape our understanding of American literature.
Download or read book Lost in the Customhouse written by Jerome Loving and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spirited challenge to dominant American literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the nineteenth century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for prophetic and revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of the last century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society. From Washington Irving to Theodore Dreiser, Loving finds the American literary tradition filled with narrators who keep waking up to the central scene of the author's real or imagined life. They travel through a customhouse of the imagination in which the Old World experience of the present is taxed by the New World of the utopian past, where life is always cyclical instead of linear and ameliorative. Loving argues that the central literary experience in nineteenth-century America is the puritanical desire for the time before the loss of innocence - that endless chance of coming into experience anew. Lost in the Customhouse begins with a discussion of Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson and finds these seminal Renaissance writers waking up primarily to psychological facts which blossomed into the fiction of a self begotten out of the nothingness of experience. In part 2, Loving shifts his attention to the urbanization of the American imagination and discusses Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser. Here the dream-driven impulse is more clearly influenced by social history: abolition, women's suffrage, industrialization, and the growth of professionalism. Loving focuses upon the role of the woman who finds herself on the same frontier as her male precursors - "with nothing but a carpetbag - that is to say, the [American] ego." Throughout the study, Loving challenges the notion that American literature is preponderately "cultural work." In the epilogue, he packs up his own carpetbag and passes through the European customhouse to find that American writers are more readily perceived as literary geniuses outside of their culture than within it.
Download or read book American Renaissance written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and published by London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1941 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: F. O. Matthiessen has centered his evaluation of the great age of our literature around the chief works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Mr. Matthiessen has made the intensive critical synthesis that has long been needed, taking full advantage of the historical and biographical work that has been done during the past generation. He holds that an artist's use of language is the most sensitive index to cultural history, and consequently approaches our writers through close attention to their own theories of art. He has not only made a more thorough scrutiny of the form and content of "Moby-Dick", "Walden", and "Leaves of Grass" than any heretofore in print; he has also investigated the largely neglected subject of the interrelations between the various writers. His concluding chapter brings all his major writers together through their subject matter and through their varied responses to the myth of the common man. His book thus ends of a comparison between the function of myth in the age of Whitman and Melville and in that of Joyce and Mann. -- From publisher's description.
Download or read book The Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance written by Jeffrey Steele and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance
Download or read book The American Adam written by R.W.B. Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectual history is viewed in this book as a series of "great conversations"—dramatic dialogues in which a culture's spokesmen wrestle with the leading questions of their times. In nineteenth-century America the great argument centered about De Crèvecoeur's "new man," the American, an innocent Adam in a bright new world dissociating himself from the historic past. Mr. Lewis reveals this vital preoccupation as a pervasive, transforming ingredient of the American mind, illuminating history and theology as well as art, shaping the consciousness of lesser thinkers as fully as it shaped the giants of the age. He traces the Adamic theme in the writings of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Henry James, and others, and in an Epilogue he exposes their continuing spirit in the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, J. D. Salinger, and Saul Bellow.
