EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 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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... comes across best by listening not to critics but to the sound of Emerson's own words. Featured in the following chapters, therefore, are new readings of his most admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less ...
... comes across best by listening not to critics but to the sound of Emerson's own words. Featured in the following chapters, therefore, are new readings of his most admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less ...
... comes to mind is poetry. Only after a paean to lyrical imagination does he turn to history, philosophy, political science (W 1: 105). The point, though, is not that poetry puts all other writing in the shade but that intellection must ...
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Turinys
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |