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. 67 The doesn't get essay much beyond stating that Self - Reliance will make you more self - reliant . Emerson is too concerned to immunize his readers against groupthink to say much about so- cial action . Indeed society ...
... Self- Reliance , which could not be achieved by remaining at the level of conventional linear expression . His compressed , metaphori- cal prose was intended both to perform self - reliant thinking and provoke it . So too his fondness ...
... Self - Reliance after midlife , and that he was not a kind of fatalist all along . Ste- phen Whicher's Freedom and Fate ( 1953 ) made the tragic lapse theory of Emerson's inner life seem axiomatic ... SELF - RELIANCE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE.
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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