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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... thought and 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 ...
... thought and 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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... 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 “evanescence and lubricity of all objects” which Emerson ...
... 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 “evanescence and lubricity of all objects” which Emerson ...
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... thought to thought so that the reader is forced to construe meaning in the spaces between sentences—he ensured that the desire for closure or unity would be piqued and then thwarted, and that any gesture toward action would be ...
... thought to thought so that the reader is forced to construe meaning in the spaces between sentences—he ensured that the desire for closure or unity would be piqued and then thwarted, and that any gesture toward action would be ...
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... 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 ...
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2 Emerson in the Gilded Age | |
Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism | |
4 FO Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar | |
5 Perry Millers Errand into the Wilderness | |
6 Sacvan Bercovitch as American Scholar | |
7 Emersons Ghosts | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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