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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... experience by which Emerson's writing has demonstrably effected psychological transformations upon individuals in ways that remain to some extent mysterious and unpredictable. Emersonian hauntings are the result of energies that cannot ...
... experience by which Emerson's writing has demonstrably effected psychological transformations upon individuals in ways that remain to some extent mysterious and unpredictable. Emersonian hauntings are the result of energies that cannot ...
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... experience and those tendencies toward conceptualization designed and meant to order such experience. Emerson's particular and robust version of literary performance encourages eccentric reading and fosters sympathetic identification ...
... experience and those tendencies toward conceptualization designed and meant to order such experience. Emerson's particular and robust version of literary performance encourages eccentric reading and fosters sympathetic identification ...
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... experience, Emerson's literary language asks us to imagine the opposite: a position embedded within a ravishing, chaotic, and profligate particularity that may suggest activity—but in ways always open to revision. This is by no means to ...
... experience, Emerson's literary language asks us to imagine the opposite: a position embedded within a ravishing, chaotic, and profligate particularity that may suggest activity—but in ways always open to revision. This is by no means to ...
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... experience, that shall constitute an epoch[,] a revolution in the minds on whom you act & in your own” (JMN 4: 266). In many ways, this emerging sense of vocational destiny and social conversion was brought into sharper relief by ...
... experience, that shall constitute an epoch[,] a revolution in the minds on whom you act & in your own” (JMN 4: 266). In many ways, this emerging sense of vocational destiny and social conversion was brought into sharper relief by ...
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... experienced firsthand a highly partisan contest characterized by Gay Wilson Allen as a “violence of words, noisy demonstrations, and, as the November election drew near, by actual rioting in the streets.”20 Once again, competing ...
... experienced firsthand a highly partisan contest characterized by Gay Wilson Allen as a “violence of words, noisy demonstrations, and, as the November election drew near, by actual rioting in the streets.”20 Once again, competing ...
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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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