TY - BOOK ID - 80838737 TI - Poets of Protest : Mythological Resignification in American Antebellum and German Vormärz Literature PY - 2016 SN - 3839437458 9783839437452 PB - Bielefeld transcript Verlag DB - UniCat KW - Mythology in literature. KW - Myth in literature. KW - Mythology; Antebellum America; Vormärz Germany; Politics; National Identity; Narratology; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Karl Gutzkow; William Wells Brown; Heinrich Heine; America; Culture; American Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; Literary Studies KW - America. KW - American History. KW - American Studies. KW - Antebellum America. KW - Cultural Studies. KW - Culture. KW - Heinrich Heine. KW - Karl Gutzkow. KW - Literary Studies. KW - Narratology. KW - Nathaniel Hawthorne. KW - National Identity. KW - Politics. KW - Vormärz Germany. KW - William Wells Brown. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80838737 AB - 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. ER -