A Study of American National Literature in the 19th Century: Focusing on Longfellow's Poetry
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This book reproduces the process of writers in the post-revolutionary era anxiously exploring the road to constructing American national literature, comprehensively combs the relationship between Longfellow's poetry and the historical process and culture of Indians, and reveals the impact of white writers' colonialist stance on the writing of Indian images. Through text comparative research, the influence of Indian myths and legends, poetry and European epics such as "Homer" and "Kalevala" on Longfellow's poetry creation is revealed from the aspects of characters, narrative art, formula and parallel structure. In short, Indian culture is a unique resource for American national literature in the 19th century, and drawing on Indian literature and the oral tradition of European epics is its unique artistic path.
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