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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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. |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 85
Página
... idea and image may persuade individual readers to perceive their world differently—and thus to think and behave in ways that rub against the grain of more coercive or absolutist thought and language—it does so in ways that are radically ...
... idea and image may persuade individual readers to perceive their world differently—and thus to think and behave in ways that rub against the grain of more coercive or absolutist thought and language—it does so in ways that are radically ...
Página
... thought. My contention is that in the momentary grace provided by this tense opposition, in the surprised interregnum that occurs when the aesthetic bumps up against history and history bumps back, we might discover new ways of ...
... thought. My contention is that in the momentary grace provided by this tense opposition, in the surprised interregnum that occurs when the aesthetic bumps up against history and history bumps back, we might discover new ways of ...
Página
... Emerson to think about the literary as a mode capable of complicating and troping (complicating through troping) political representation, while at the same time holding out the possibility of transforming and even activating ...
... Emerson to think about the literary as a mode capable of complicating and troping (complicating through troping) political representation, while at the same time holding out the possibility of transforming and even activating ...
Página
... had inaugurated and which seemed to be leading America into an abyss of disorder and violence.” 11 Jacksonian democracy challenged Emerson's understanding of his historical moment by promulgating the inherent worth of the individual ...
... had inaugurated and which seemed to be leading America into an abyss of disorder and violence.” 11 Jacksonian democracy challenged Emerson's understanding of his historical moment by promulgating the inherent worth of the individual ...
Página
... thought and perceptions that will, in Emerson's cosmology, eventually lead to a higher plane of consciousness and shared action. How to accomplish this task is addressed, among other places, in “The Poet,” which describes the artist as ...
... thought and perceptions that will, in Emerson's cosmology, eventually lead to a higher plane of consciousness and shared action. How to accomplish this task is addressed, among other places, in “The Poet,” which describes the artist as ...
Conteúdo
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 | |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists Randall Fuller Visualização parcial - 2007 |
Termos e frases comuns
action aesthetic American culture American literary American Literature American Renaissance American Scholar American Studies analysis asserts become believe Bercovitch Brooks Brooks’s canon century chapter claims concerns context continue Conway created critical cultural democracy democratic described discussion earlier early effect effort emerging Emerson Emersonian essay existence experience expression fact felt figure force genteel Harvard hope human ideal ideas ideology imaginative important increasingly individual influence intellectual interest interpretation James John language later less letter literary history living material Matthiessen means Miller mind nature notes once opposition particular past Perry philosophical political portrait position possibilities practice present problem Puritan question radical readers reading recent remarks response result reveals rhetoric role seemed sense social society suggests symbolic theory things thinking thought tradition transformation understanding University Press vision Waldo writing Wyck York