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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... imagination it took to think this ! But how could he ? How could he reduce flesh - and - blood people to indis- tinguishable shrubbery ? But then the passage corrects itself by veering to the opposite extreme . Even though humankind may ...
... imagination is to flow , and not to freeze " ( W 3 : 20 ) . This dictum revises Na- ture's chapter on “ Language , " which imagines nature as a book of symbols with fixed meanings . " The Poet " insists on their fluidity and ...
... imagination to create symbols freely . The proto - Darwinian second essay on " Nature " reinforces this vision , conceiving nature itself as perpetual flux . If " evolution " gave Emerson scientific warrant for fluidity of imagination ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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