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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... Heroes , Hero - Worship , and the Heroic in History is on Odin . Carlyle views Odin as the altogether admirable prototype of the great man , and Carlyle's enthusiasm for the subject was communicated to both Thoreau and Melville . The ...
... Heroes , Hero - Worship , and the Heroic in History is on Odin . Carlyle views Odin as the altogether admirable prototype of the great man , and Carlyle's enthusiasm for the subject was communicated to both Thoreau and Melville . The ...
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... heroes , and their condition regal , it would not surprise us . All mythology opens with demigods , and the circumstance is high and poetic ; that is , their genius is paramount . In the legends of the Gautama , the first men ate the ...
... heroes , and their condition regal , it would not surprise us . All mythology opens with demigods , and the circumstance is high and poetic ; that is , their genius is paramount . In the legends of the Gautama , the first men ate the ...
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... heroes for the self - reliant . It is remarkable that none of his demigods or types are American , none are biblical , none are Christian . If Emerson is trying to set up a canon of heroes , it is very different indeed from most . First ...
... heroes for the self - reliant . It is remarkable that none of his demigods or types are American , none are biblical , none are Christian . If Emerson is trying to set up a canon of heroes , it is very different indeed from most . First ...
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