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America’s preoccupation with problems of personal and national identity. Emergence in writings of the nineteenth century

A combined semasiological-onomasiological approach


Academic Paper, 1974

3 Pages, Grade: A


Abstract or Introduction

In modern America, "identity" is a constant preoccupation, one might even say an obsession. Individuals, communities, racial minorities, even towns and cities (like Boston) and, of course, the whole nation affirm and assert their identity, or indeed complain their lack of it.

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Title
America’s preoccupation with problems of personal and national identity. Emergence in writings of the nineteenth century
Subtitle
A combined semasiological-onomasiological approach
College
University of Massachusetts - Amherst  (English Department)
Course
Seminar Professor Plumstead
Grade
A
Author
Year
1974
Pages
3
Catalog Number
V514788
ISBN (eBook)
9783346131430
Language
English
Keywords
identity, Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, E. Dickinson, Erik. H.Erikson
Quote paper
Reiner Ruft (Author), 1974, America’s preoccupation with problems of personal and national identity. Emergence in writings of the nineteenth century, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/514788

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