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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... action. Winfried Fluck has persuasively argued that since at least the late eighteenth century, the shared project of the humanities throughout Europe and the United States has been a struggle to countermand the consuming ...
... action. Winfried Fluck has persuasively argued that since at least the late eighteenth century, the shared project of the humanities throughout Europe and the United States has been a struggle to countermand the consuming ...
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... action that would reshape or redirect culture. I am aware that to speak of Emerson in such terms is to evoke claims on behalf of the aesthetic that until quite recently were suppressed by the past two decades of literary scholarship. It ...
... action that would reshape or redirect culture. I am aware that to speak of Emerson in such terms is to evoke claims on behalf of the aesthetic that until quite recently were suppressed by the past two decades of literary scholarship. It ...
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... action—and this has been a fairly constant lament by many of Emerson's most sensitive readers—it does afford the kind of salutary selfcomplication Murray Krieger sees as exemplifying the relationship between formal object and social ...
... action—and this has been a fairly constant lament by many of Emerson's most sensitive readers—it does afford the kind of salutary selfcomplication Murray Krieger sees as exemplifying the relationship between formal object and social ...
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... —he ensured that the desire for closure or unity would be piqued and then thwarted, and that any gesture toward action would be complicated by self-awareness and doubt. We can glimpse an early example of this process by.
... —he ensured that the desire for closure or unity would be piqued and then thwarted, and that any gesture toward action would be complicated by self-awareness and doubt. We can glimpse an early example of this process by.
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... actions of either parties once the election began, Emerson noted, “Whilst it is notorious that the Jackson party is the Bad party, ... on all the banners equally of tory & whig good professions are inscribed. The Jackson flags say 'Down ...
... actions of either parties once the election began, Emerson noted, “Whilst it is notorious that the Jackson party is the Bad party, ... on all the banners equally of tory & whig good professions are inscribed. The Jackson flags say 'Down ...
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 | |
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