Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of AmericanistsOxford University Press, 7 de set. de 2007 - 232 páginas It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emerson's cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefully? In this innovative study, Randall Fuller examines the way pivotal twentieth-century critics have understood and deployed Emerson as part of their own larger projects aimed at reconceiving America. He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers. An engaging institutional history of American literary studies in the twentieth century, Emerson's Ghosts reveals the unexpected convergent forces that have shaped American cultural history in lasting ways. |
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... Americanists / by Randall Fuller p. cm. Includes biographical references. ISBN: 978-0-19-531392-5 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882—Criticism and interpretation—History. 2. American literature—History and criticism—Theor, etc. 3 ...
... Americanists / by Randall Fuller p. cm. Includes biographical references. ISBN: 978-0-19-531392-5 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882—Criticism and interpretation—History. 2. American literature—History and criticism—Theor, etc. 3 ...
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Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. the complex involvement and identification with Emerson. It emphasizes certain critical “paradigm-makers” in the belief that close attention to their practice can ...
Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. the complex involvement and identification with Emerson. It emphasizes certain critical “paradigm-makers” in the belief that close attention to their practice can ...
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Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. often disappointing actuality of American modernity—a modernity that sometimes seems relentless in its efforts to colonize or limit thought and action. Winfried Fluck ...
Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. often disappointing actuality of American modernity—a modernity that sometimes seems relentless in its efforts to colonize or limit thought and action. Winfried Fluck ...
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Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. that evades or extends beyond that which can be categorized. Like the Hamlet who mobilizes Derrida's spectrality with his lament that “time is out of joint,” the ...
Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. that evades or extends beyond that which can be categorized. Like the Hamlet who mobilizes Derrida's spectrality with his lament that “time is out of joint,” the ...
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Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. hopes of postponing that which can never be indefinitely postponed: an instrumentalization of literature and thought. My contention is that in the momentary grace ...
Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller. hopes of postponing that which can never be indefinitely postponed: an instrumentalization of literature and thought. My contention is that in the momentary grace ...
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Emerson in the Gilded | |
How to Dismantle American Culture Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism | |
F O Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar | |
Perry Millers Errand into the Wilderness | |
Sacvan Bercovitch as American Scholar | |
Emersons Ghosts | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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