EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 397 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." |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 1–5 iš 41
... interest being taken today by historians of U.S. culture in how it has been shaped in interaction with transatlantic , transpacific , and hemi- spheric influences . Although much of this revisionist history has involved retrieval of ...
... interest in his work and a vigorous effort to de- limit or reject his cultural authority . He has been hailed as the father of American literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American ...
Atsiprašome, šio puslapio turinio peržiūra yra ribojama.
Atsiprašome, šio puslapio turinio peržiūra yra ribojama.
Atsiprašome, šio puslapio turinio peržiūra yra ribojama.
Turinys
The Making of a Public Intellectual | 7 |
Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Social Thought and Reform Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
385 | |