The American Renaissance Reconsidered - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801839378 ISBN 13 : 9780801839375

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The term American Renaissance designates a period in our nation's history when the literary "classics" appeared-works "original" enough to mark a beginning for America's literary history. But the American Renaissance, Donald Pease argues in his introduction, does not belong to the nation's secular history so much as it denotes a rebirth from it: "Independent of the time kept by secular history, the American Renaissance keeps what we could call global Renaissance time-the sacred time a nation claims to renew, when it claims its cultural place as a great nation existing within a world of great nations. Providing each nation with the terms for cultural greatness denied to secular history, the 'renaissance' is not an occasion occurring within any specific historical time or place so much as it is a moment of cultural achievement that repeatedly demands to be reborn."

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0801839378
• ISBN 13: 9780801839375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234