Format:
1 Online-Ressource (311 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783839437452
Series Statement:
American culture studies Volume 18
Content:
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
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:
Dissertation University of Heidelberg 2016
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837637458
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Drescher, Michael Rodegang, 1985 - Poets of protest Bielefeld : transcript, 2017 ISBN 383763745X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783837637458
Language:
English
Subjects:
German Studies
Keywords:
Gutzkow, Karl 1811-1878 Wally, die Zweiflerin
;
Heine, Heinrich 1797-1856 Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen
;
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 The scarlet letter
;
Brown, William Wells 1815-1884 Clotel, or the President's daughter
;
Mythos
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Hochschulschrift
DOI:
10.14361/9783839437452
Author information:
Drescher, Michael Rodegang 1985-
