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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... passage in " Nominalist and Realist , " but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake , and preserve the due decorum . They melt so fast into each other , that they are like grass and trees , and it needs an effort to treat them as ...
... passage quoted earlier . It arises partly from having made good on the fresh variation on Descartes that Cavell finds in " Self - Reliance " : " I am a being who to exist must say I exist , or must acknowledge my existence - claim it ...
... passage in " Fate " stresses the courage it takes to re- fuse to be a passive fatalist . But does not Emerson take the edge off his vehemence by generalizing here ? Does he not warily retreat from the arena to the study by suggesting ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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