Narratives of America and the Frontier in Nineteenth-century German LiteratureGerman literature about America has consistently occupied a marginal position in both German and American studies. This study attempts an overall interpretation of such nineteenth-century literature by charting its most significant narratives. Narratives are thus shown to be embedded and generated in a bicultural or multicultural setting derived from historical givens as well as from the possibilities inherent in fabrication. The result is the illumination of an area previously neglected in literature, revealing not only intricate literary creations, but also significant insights about culture, canonicity, and the construction of national identities. |
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... Notes ( 1842 ) , a tone of general ambivalence prevails . On the one hand , Dickens's work immerses itself in the concrete , free of any explicit references to one's own cultural biases . Like many British travellers writing about ...
... Notes ( 1842 ) , a tone of general ambivalence prevails . On the one hand , Dickens's work immerses itself in the concrete , free of any explicit references to one's own cultural biases . Like many British travellers writing about ...
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... notes , the image must contain an element of reality ; it cannot merely remain a solipsistic exercise.203 Furthermore , a few of these works , as Peter J. Brenner notes , " lösen sie sich von den eigenkulturellen Wahrnehmungs ...
... notes , the image must contain an element of reality ; it cannot merely remain a solipsistic exercise.203 Furthermore , a few of these works , as Peter J. Brenner notes , " lösen sie sich von den eigenkulturellen Wahrnehmungs ...
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... notes , was that Duden's “ Bericht " activated already existing beliefs and imagery about " das Paradies - Motiv , " a motif that was widely propagated in Romanticism . Duden's Amerikabild , Brenner argues , was a response to one of the ...
... notes , was that Duden's “ Bericht " activated already existing beliefs and imagery about " das Paradies - Motiv , " a motif that was widely propagated in Romanticism . Duden's Amerikabild , Brenner argues , was a response to one of the ...
Contents
Charles Sealsfields Fable of the Republic | 87 |
Charles Sealsfield and the Frontier Thesis | 109 |
Reinhold Solgers Bildungsreise to the New World | 127 |
Copyright | |
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