The Presence of Mythology in American Literature
Myth, a nucleus of literary creation anyway, has always had two sides for students of American literary history: on the one hand there is the emigrants’ attachment to the traditions of Christian humanism but, on the other, there are the mythical realities and potentialities of a New World. Therefore, it might be possible to argue that the presence of mythology in American Literature is something of a paradigm for the interplay of tradition and innovation in the growth of the cultural identity of the United States
Articles in this special issue
- Mythical Aspects of Poe's Detective
Lothar Černý
Connotations Vol. 5: 131-46 - Calvinism Feminized: Divine Matriarchy in Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Gatta
Connotations Vol. 5: 147-66 - The Myth of the Self in Whitman's "Song of Myself"1) and Traherne's "Thanksgivings"2): A Hypothesis3)
Inge Leimberg
Connotations Vol. 5: 167-86 - Mythifying Africa
Ruth Mayer
Connotations Vol. 5: 187-207 - The Language of Dogs: Mythos and Logos in Emily Dickinson4)
Matthias Bauer
Connotations Vol. 5: 208-27 - Modern Republicanism and the Education of Achilles: An Interpretation of Tom Sawyer
John R. Kayser
Connotations Vol. 5: 228-39 - Noble Imagery: Wallace Stevens and Mesoamerican Mythology
Anca Rosu
Connotations Vol. 5: 240-58 - Faulkner and Racial Mythology
Arthur F. Kinney
Connotations Vol. 5: 259-75 - Mythic Sex in Mississippi: Eula and Ike Snopes
Lothar Hönnighausen
Connotations Vol. 5: 276-83 - The Control Machine: Myth in The Soft Machine of W. S. Burroughs5)
John G. Watters
Connotations Vol. 5: 284-303 - The Myth of the American Adam in Late Mailer
John Whalen-Bridge
Connotations Vol. 5: 304-21 - Myths of Identity in Derek Walcott's "The Schooner Flight"
Mary C. Fuller
Connotations Vol. 5: 322-38 - The Woods, the West, and Icarus's Mother: Myth in the Contemporary American Theatre
John Russell Brown
Connotations Vol. 5: 339-54