Poets of Protest

Michael Rodegang Drescher analyzes national mythologies in American and German literature. He focuses on processes of mythological resignification, a literary phenomenon carrying significant implications for questions of identity, democracy, and nationalism in Europe and America. Precise narratological analyses are paired with detailed, transnational readings of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Gutzkow's Wally, die Zweiflerin, Brown's Clotel, and Heine's Deutschland. Ein Wintermarchen. The study marries literature, mythology, and politics and contributes to the study of American and German literature at large.

Michael Rodegang Drescher analizeaza mitologiile nationale din literatura americana si germana. El se concentreaza pe procesele de resemnificare mitologica, un fenomen literar care are implicatii semnificative pentru probleme de identitate, democratie si nationalism in Europa si America.