Author: Paul Grimstad
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199874077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The book traces connections between the literary experiments of Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry James, and the emergence of classical American pragmatism.
Experience and Experimental Writing
Author: Paul Grimstad
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199874077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The book traces connections between the literary experiments of Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry James, and the emergence of classical American pragmatism.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199874077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The book traces connections between the literary experiments of Emerson, Poe, Melville, and Henry James, and the emergence of classical American pragmatism.
Beneath the American Renaissance
Author: David S. Reynolds
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199976406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199976406
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.
Poetic Words of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Author: Sreechinth C
Publisher: UB Tech
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
POETIC WORDS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON ~ 4000+ words of the Transcendentalist ~ The American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson is regarded as the best Transcendentalist poet and philosopher of the nineteenth century. In spite of all the struggles suffered, he came out with the strong belief in individualism which he always promoted in his essays. He was a challenger of traditional thoughts and a patron of new literary and philosophic movement called Transcendentalism. From his first book ‘Nature’, he established his motto Trust Thyself neglecting any external powers. Till his demise, he continued to promote the importance of self intuition with his philosophies. The book, ‘Poetic Words of Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4000+ words of the Transcendentalist’ has the highest collection of the optimistic words of this Transcendentalist…
Publisher: UB Tech
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
POETIC WORDS OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON ~ 4000+ words of the Transcendentalist ~ The American poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson is regarded as the best Transcendentalist poet and philosopher of the nineteenth century. In spite of all the struggles suffered, he came out with the strong belief in individualism which he always promoted in his essays. He was a challenger of traditional thoughts and a patron of new literary and philosophic movement called Transcendentalism. From his first book ‘Nature’, he established his motto Trust Thyself neglecting any external powers. Till his demise, he continued to promote the importance of self intuition with his philosophies. The book, ‘Poetic Words of Ralph Waldo Emerson : 4000+ words of the Transcendentalist’ has the highest collection of the optimistic words of this Transcendentalist…
William Blake and the Myth of America
Author: Linda Freedman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254277X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope. Blake entered American society when slavery was rife and civil war threatened the fragile experiment of democracy. He found his moment in the mid twentieth-century counterculture as left-wing Americans took refuge in the arts at a time of increasingly reactionary conservatism, vicious racism, pervasive sexism, dangerous nuclear competition, and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the fires of Orc raging against the systems of Urizen. Blake's America, as a symbol of cyclical hope and despair, influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralised the relationship between aspiration and experience. His interrogations of power and privilege, freedom and form resonated with Americans who repeatedly wrestled with the deep ironies of new world symbolism and sought to renew a Whitmanesque ideal of democracy through affection and openness towards alterity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254277X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope. Blake entered American society when slavery was rife and civil war threatened the fragile experiment of democracy. He found his moment in the mid twentieth-century counterculture as left-wing Americans took refuge in the arts at a time of increasingly reactionary conservatism, vicious racism, pervasive sexism, dangerous nuclear competition, and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the fires of Orc raging against the systems of Urizen. Blake's America, as a symbol of cyclical hope and despair, influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralised the relationship between aspiration and experience. His interrogations of power and privilege, freedom and form resonated with Americans who repeatedly wrestled with the deep ironies of new world symbolism and sought to renew a Whitmanesque ideal of democracy through affection and openness towards alterity.
Manuscript Essays and Notes
Author: William James
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674548299
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
When James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. The most important of these manuscripts are those of the years 1903 and 1904 called "The Many and the One." The manuscripts in the rest of the volume contain James's reflections over 40 years in the form of drafts, memoranda, and notebook entries.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674548299
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
When James died in 1910 he left a large body of manuscript material that has never appeared in print. The most important of these manuscripts are those of the years 1903 and 1904 called "The Many and the One." The manuscripts in the rest of the volume contain James's reflections over 40 years in the form of drafts, memoranda, and notebook entries.
Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Selected Writings
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476761256
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An essential collection of the most noteworthy essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leading architect of the Transcendentalist movement, which championed self-reliance, individualism, and personal potential. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes to guide the reader's own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Simon & Schuster Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476761256
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An essential collection of the most noteworthy essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a leading architect of the Transcendentalist movement, which championed self-reliance, individualism, and personal potential. THIS ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of key themes to guide the reader's own interpretations • Detailed explanatory notes • Critical analysis and modern perspectives on the work • Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction • A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Simon & Schuster Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.
Nature, addresses and lectures
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Nature
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Essays and English Traits
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 23, 1803. He toured Europe, passing through Italy, Switzerland, and France to Britain, and visiting Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and most important of all, Carlyle, with whom he laid the foundation of a life-long friendship. At the time of Emerson's death, he was recognized as the foremost writer and thinker of his country. The spirit and ideas which constitute the essence of his teaching are fully expressed in the essays contained in this volume and belong to the earlier half of his literary activity. This one volume provides a complete view of the philosophy of one of the greatest American thinkers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 23, 1803. He toured Europe, passing through Italy, Switzerland, and France to Britain, and visiting Landor, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and most important of all, Carlyle, with whom he laid the foundation of a life-long friendship. At the time of Emerson's death, he was recognized as the foremost writer and thinker of his country. The spirit and ideas which constitute the essence of his teaching are fully expressed in the essays contained in this volume and belong to the earlier half of his literary activity. This one volume provides a complete view of the philosophy of one of the greatest American thinkers.