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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... difference . " Emerson does indeed express that desire . Influ- ential contemporaries made much of it , like Whitman ( approv- ingly ) and Melville ( critically ) . But it is not the whole truth about Emersonian aesthetics , nor is ...
... difference . That too I take it Arnold and Holmes were also gesturing to- ward : a sense of omni - spirituality that another late - nineteenth- century writer teasingly called " the higher Buddhism . " This was Lafcadio Hearn , a ...
... differences , and the profound resemblances . But every mental act , — this very perception of identity or oneness , recognizes the difference of things . Oneness and Otherness . It is impossible to speak , or to think without embracing ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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