UID:
almafu_9959232890102883
Format:
1 online resource (313 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8394-3745-8
Series Statement:
American Culture Studies 18
Content:
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.
Note:
Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 1. Introduction 9 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the Opening of Fences 33 3. Karl Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin and the Despair of Artificiality 105 4. William Wells Brown's Clotel and the Puritan Voyage Reversed 173 5. Heinrich Heine's Wintermärchen and the Laughter of the Age 219 6. Conclusion 283 Works Cited 303
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Issued also in print.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-8376-3745-X
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
DOI:
10.14361/9783839437452
