Jason's voyage

Autori

• Klaus Lanzinger

Parametri

• Letteratura mondiale
• Narrativa

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Jason's Voyage is the first overall, comprehensive treatment of the Old World or European theme in American literature in two decades. Thoroughly researched, the book examines the European tours of four major American writers - Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and Thomas Wolfe - and demonstrates how their European experiences were transmuted into the literary work of art. At the same time, it defines the central themes in American letters, as they evolved in regard to Europe over the hundred year period from 1835 to 1935. Among these are innocence exposed to evil, the Grand Tour of Europe as an aesthetic pilgrimage, Old World nostalgia and romantic illusions versus sad disappointments, the ambivalence arising from American democratic self-assertion and the cultural myth of the Old World, the search for the Old Home and the American claim to its share of Europe's cultural heritage In its concluding synthesis, the book offers astonishing new insights into the relationships of American authors to Europe and in a wider sense enlightens the deep-rooted American affinity for the Old World.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 1989