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� Le livre de John Shields est un d�fi provocateur au v�n�rable mythe adamique si largement d�ploy� dans les examens de la litt�rature am�ricaine ancienne et dans les �tudes am�ricaines. De plus, The American Aeneas s'appuie merveilleusement sur le travail consid�rable de Shields sur Phillis Wheatley. � ? — Litt�rature am�ricaine ? ?

� L'�n�e am�ricaine devrait int�resser les classiques et les chercheurs d'�tudes am�ricaines. � ?—The New England Quarterly? ?

John Shields expose une c�cit� culturelle significative dans la conscience am�ricaine. Notant le personnage biblique Adam comme un arch�type qui a longtemps domin� les id�es de ce que signifie �tre am�ricain, Shields soutient qu'une composante tout aussi importante de l'identit� culturelle de notre nation - une la�que d�rivant de la tradition classique - a �t� s�rieusement n�glig�e. Boucliers montre comment Adam et En�e, le h�ros de l'�n�ide de Vergil, en traversant l'Am�ricain depuis l'Europe, se sont entrem�l�s dynamiquement dans la pens�e des premiers �crivains am�ricains. Shields affirme que d�couvrir et reconna�tre les racines classiques de notre culture peut apaiser la peur am�ricaine de � l'irrit� � que l'accent de longue date sur le mythe adamique a g�n�r�.

John C. Shields est l'�diteur de The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley et l'auteur de The American Aeneas: Classical Origins of the American Self, qui a remport� un prix Choice Outstanding Academic Book et une mention honorable dans le concours Harry Levin Prize, parrain� par l'American Comparative Literature Association.

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Etat : Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 432 pages. Shields shows how both the myth of Adam and the myth of Aeneas, in crossing over to America from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. This rearticulation of the myths of Adam and Aeneas became peculiarly adapted to the demands of the American adventure in freedom. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of "pastlessness" that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. The authors probing analysis sheds new light on the works of such seminal figures as Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather, Phillis Wheatley, George Washington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Record # 399846. N� de r�f. du vendeur 399846

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Cloth with dustjacket. Etat : Gut. XLV, 432 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�hrigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag minimal berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand, mit pers�nlicher Widmung des Authors an Wolfgang Haase, inklusive einer Rezension des Buches / dust jacket minimally rubbed, otherwise very good condition, with personal dedication of the author to Wolfgang Haase, including a review of the book. - In The American Aeneas, John C. Shields exposes a significant cultural blindness within American consciousness. Noting that the biblical myth of Adam has long dominated ideas of what it means to be American, Shields argues that an equally important component of our nations cultural identitya secular one deriving from the classical traditionhas been seriously neglected. The author finds various Early American texts, including pastorals, pastoral elegies, literary independence poems, tracts on educational theories, religious discourses, and political writings, laden with elements of classicism, particularly the myth of Aeneas as depicted by Vergil. Shields demonstrates that Aeneas, Vergils hero of the Aeneid, was an especially apt figure for New World discourse in that he epitomized the sailor who struck out onto dangerous, uncharted seas in order to discover a new land in which to build a new civilization. Shields shows how both the myth of Adam and the myth of Aeneas, in crossing over to America from Europe, dynamically intermingled in the thought of the earliest American writers. This rearticulation of the myths of Adam and Aeneas became peculiarly adapted to the demands of the American adventure in freedom. Shields argues that uncovering and acknowledging the classical roots of our culture can allay the American fear of pastlessness that the long-standing emphasis on the Adamic myth has generated. The authors probing analysis sheds new light on the works of such seminal figures as Edward Taylor, Cotton Mather, Phillis Wheatley, George Washington, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. But it does much more than thatit posits a new model for American studies. This model, Shields writes, is not composed of a single strand which can only direct the struggle to explore the dimensions of American culture in a linear fashionan inevitable dead end. The image of two strands coming together, intertwining and interconnecting so as to accommodate virtually infinite possibilities, more accurately captures the dynamic of Americanness. / Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Quest for the American Aeneas Part I. Adam and Aeneas: 1500-1720 1. Translatio Cultus 2. Edward Taylors Classicism 3. Cotton Mathers Epic in Prose Part II. Adam Becomes Aeneas: 1720-1784 4. Surge for Cultural Independence: The Flourishing of American Classicism 5. George Washington and the Vergilian Moment 6. The American Epic Writ Large: The Example of Phillis Wheatley Part III. Aeneas Becomes Adam: 1784 to the Present 7. The Radical Shift in Discourse 8. The Persistence of the American Aeneas in Hawthorne 9. The Persistence of the American Aeneas in Melville Conclusion: Americas Classical Origins Besieged Notes Bibliography Index. ISBN 9781572331327 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 824. N� de r�f. du vendeur 1188526

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