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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... fact " corresponding to some " spiritual fact " ( " a lamb is inno- cence , a snake is subtle spite " ) . Two pseudo - sciences converge here : an older esoteric mystical conception of the liber mundi , the world as a book of symbols ...
... fact that " American poetics " is too pluriform for a single theory to contain . None squarely faces the fact that 145 an internal narrative of U.S. literary history overstates national EMERSONIAN POETICS.
... fact that spiritual privatization , of whatever sort , was not his sole legacy as a reli- gious thinker , even though he himself might well have been content to think it the most important . His writings were also important in prodding ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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