Myth and Literature in the American RenaissanceIndiana University Press, 1978 - 309 oldal 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. |
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... believe impossible legends , conflicting assertions ; to take fiction for a fact , a dream for the miraculous revelation of God , an Oriental poem for a grave history of miraculous events , a collection of amatory idyls for a serious ...
... believe impossible legends , conflicting assertions ; to take fiction for a fact , a dream for the miraculous revelation of God , an Oriental poem for a grave history of miraculous events , a collection of amatory idyls for a serious ...
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... believe that mythmaking , when it was a serious business and not just a matter of superimposed imagery or arbitrary apologue , was theomorphic rather than anthropomorphic . This put a whole new face on the mythmaking process . Where ...
... believe that mythmaking , when it was a serious business and not just a matter of superimposed imagery or arbitrary apologue , was theomorphic rather than anthropomorphic . This put a whole new face on the mythmaking process . Where ...
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... believe it , ―merely contrived to persuade other men , not worthy of the name of sane , to believe it ! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men's doings and history ; and I here , on the very ...
... believe it , ―merely contrived to persuade other men , not worthy of the name of sane , to believe it ! It will be often our duty to protest against this sort of hypothesis about men's doings and history ; and I here , on the very ...
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