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Poets of Protest : Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature / Michael Rodegang Drescher.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American Culture Studies ; 18Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783839437452
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.30915 22/ger
LOC classification:
  • PS169.N35 D74 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- The Pushing of Horizons -- 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the Opening of Fences -- 3. Karl Gutzkow’s Wally, die Zweiflerin and the Despair of Artificiality -- The Treading of Pathways -- 4. William Wells Brown’s Clotel and the Puritan Voyage Reversed -- 5. Heinrich Heine’s Wintermärchen and the Laughter of the Age -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited
Summary: Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- The Pushing of Horizons -- 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the Opening of Fences -- 3. Karl Gutzkow’s Wally, die Zweiflerin and the Despair of Artificiality -- The Treading of Pathways -- 4. William Wells Brown’s Clotel and the Puritan Voyage Reversed -- 5. Heinrich Heine’s Wintermärchen and the Laughter of the Age -- 6. Conclusion -- Works Cited

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Michael Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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