EmersonHarvard University Press, 2003-05-25 - 416 psl. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a "representative man." |
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Lawrence Buell. 125 Emerson at the Peak of His Form : “ Experience " " Experience " is a series of interconnected mini - reflections on seven facets or phases of mental life that struggle to fight free from the unprecedentedly bleak mood ...
... experience , the Piranesi- like nausea with which “ Experience ” begins : “ Where do we find ourselves ? " Yet just as " Idealism " remains aware of the self - ab- sorbed extravagance of the poetic imagination it indulges , so " Experience ...
... Experience , " and " Illusions . " " Idealism " entertains the Berkeleyan thesis that the mind creates the world , only to reject it for leaving " God out of me " and alienating me from nature . " Experience " parades a series of phases ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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