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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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 23
Página
... rhetoric with the polysemous array spun from language's simultaneous knitting and unraveling. The contentious New York elections, in other words, eventually enabled Emerson to think about the literary as a mode capable of complicating ...
... rhetoric with the polysemous array spun from language's simultaneous knitting and unraveling. The contentious New York elections, in other words, eventually enabled Emerson to think about the literary as a mode capable of complicating ...
Página
... rhetoric of the “common” people. It caused American lexicographer Noah Webster to complain in 1837 that the prevailing commonplace that “the people can govern themselves 15 and that a democracy is of course a free government”
... rhetoric of the “common” people. It caused American lexicographer Noah Webster to complain in 1837 that the prevailing commonplace that “the people can govern themselves 15 and that a democracy is of course a free government”
Página
... rhetoric, and to respond with votes and loyalty.” 17 The New York City Election Riots of April 8–10, while more violent and sustained than the election disturbances that revisited the city in November, provoked less of a response from ...
... rhetoric, and to respond with votes and loyalty.” 17 The New York City Election Riots of April 8–10, while more violent and sustained than the election disturbances that revisited the city in November, provoked less of a response from ...
Página
... rhetoric of democracy. The party's willingness to invoke the cause of the people—a crucial tactic if it was to contend at all in the political arena redefined and controlled by Jackson—is nevertheless suggested in one of the resolutions ...
... rhetoric of democracy. The party's willingness to invoke the cause of the people—a crucial tactic if it was to contend at all in the political arena redefined and controlled by Jackson—is nevertheless suggested in one of the resolutions ...
Página
Você atingiu seu limite de visualização deste livro.
Você atingiu seu limite de visualização deste livro.
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