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Pagan Dreiser : songs from American mythology

Title
Pagan Dreiser : songs from American mythology / Shawn St. Jean.
Author
St. Jean, Shawn, 1967-
Publication
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2001], ©2001.

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Description
235 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  • Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 > Knowledge and learning
  • Mythology
  • Religion and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • National characteristics, American, in literature
  • American fiction > Greek influences
  • Mythology, Greek, in literature
  • Classicism > United States
  • Classicism in literature
  • Paganism in literature
  • Myth in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-228) and index.
Contents
Naturalism. The Augean Stables. Proem. Modern Mimesis. The American Tragedian -- Social Criticism. Oikos. Hesiod and the Work Ethic. Logos -- Gender and Sexuality. Sister Carrie and Gender Bending Early in the Late Century. "Whom the Gods Would Destroy ..." A Gallery of Women and the Paradoxes of Male Subjectivity -- Religion, Mythology, and Intertextuality. Coda. American Mythos.
ISBN
0838638872 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00065401
OCLC
  • ocm45375073
  • SCSB-4147647
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries