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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... readers, and the second examines Emerson's early cultural construction by critics at the end of the nineteenth century. The next four chapters comprise individual treatments of critics of central importance to American literary history ...
... readers, and the second examines Emerson's early cultural construction by critics at the end of the nineteenth century. The next four chapters comprise individual treatments of critics of central importance to American literary history ...
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... readers and critics—to haunt them, as it were. I use the term “haunt” advisedly, not only to conjure up Harold Bloom's description of Emerson as “our ghostly father” and that sense of belatedness Geoffrey H. Hartman evokes as “a ...
... readers and critics—to haunt them, as it were. I use the term “haunt” advisedly, not only to conjure up Harold Bloom's description of Emerson as “our ghostly father” and that sense of belatedness Geoffrey H. Hartman evokes as “a ...
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... reading and fosters sympathetic identification (“I contain multitudes,” wrote one of the earliest haunted). It posits a speculative haven in which consciousness may enlarge itself through imaginative solidarity with the author or ...
... reading and fosters sympathetic identification (“I contain multitudes,” wrote one of the earliest haunted). It posits a speculative haven in which consciousness may enlarge itself through imaginative solidarity with the author or ...
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... 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, and necessarily, volatile. Like that ...
... 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, and necessarily, volatile. Like that ...
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... readers an almost overwhelming desire to grasp at solid concepts and propositions—to theorize themselves into a vantage whereby truth might be envisioned—only to leave them clutching at air. It is in this expression of sheer movement ...
... readers an almost overwhelming desire to grasp at solid concepts and propositions—to theorize themselves into a vantage whereby truth might be envisioned—only to leave them clutching at air. It is in this expression of sheer movement ...
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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