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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... other eighteenth - century uses of “ fable ” to mean apologue or modern fable ( such as Aesop's or La Fontaine's ) and plot or story line . Almost everything relating to what we now think of as myth 10 THE TWO TRADITIONS.
... other eighteenth - century uses of “ fable ” to mean apologue or modern fable ( such as Aesop's or La Fontaine's ) and plot or story line . Almost everything relating to what we now think of as myth 10 THE TWO TRADITIONS.
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Robert D. Richardson. everything relating to what we now think of as myth came , for the eighteenth century , under the heading of the word " mythology . " This word did not then mean primarily a collection of myths or fables ; it meant ...
Robert D. Richardson. everything relating to what we now think of as myth came , for the eighteenth century , under the heading of the word " mythology . " This word did not then mean primarily a collection of myths or fables ; it meant ...
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... relating to the Deity , and the perpetual recurrence of anthropo - morphitic views of him . It is often difficult to determine where the myth begins , and the plain statement ends . But the Hebrew Scriptures have this difficulty in ...
... relating to the Deity , and the perpetual recurrence of anthropo - morphitic views of him . It is often difficult to determine where the myth begins , and the plain statement ends . But the Hebrew Scriptures have this difficulty in ...
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