TY - BOOK AU - MICHAEL RODEGANG,Drescher TI - Poets of Protest: Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature T2 - American Culture Studies SN - 9783839437452 U1 - 420 PY - 2017/// PB - transcript Verlag KW - DE-Limba și literatura engleză KW - UDJG KW - resursă online N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://www-degruyter-com.am.e-nformation.ro/document/doi/10.1515/9783839437452/html ER -