Emerson's Theories of Literary Expressions

Emerson's Theories of Literary Expressions PDF Author: Emerson Grant Sutcliffe
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Emerson's Theories of Literary Expressions

Emerson's Theories of Literary Expressions PDF Author: Emerson Grant Sutcliffe
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738

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Emerson's Theories of Literary Expression

Emerson's Theories of Literary Expression PDF Author: Emerson Grant Sutcliffe
Publisher: New York : Phaeton Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Emerson's Theories of Literary Expression

Emerson's Theories of Literary Expression PDF Author: Emerson Grant Sutcliffe
Publisher: New York : Phaeton Press
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Emerson’s Liberalism

Emerson’s Liberalism PDF Author: Neal Dolan
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299228037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Emerson’s Liberalism explains why Ralph Waldo Emerson has been and remains the central literary voice of American culture: he gave ever-fresh and lasting expression to its most fundamental and widely shared liberal values. Liberalism, after all, is more than a political philosophy: it is a form of civilization, a set of values, a culture, a way of representing and living in the world. This book makes explicit what has long been implicit in America’s embrace of Emerson. Neal Dolan offers the first comprehensive and historically informed exposition of all of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s writings as a contribution to the theory and practice of liberal culture. Rather than projecting twentieth-century viewpoints onto the past, he restores Emerson’s great body of work to the classical liberal contexts that most decisively shaped its general political-cultural outlook—the libertarian-liberalism of John Locke, the Scottish Enlightenment, the American founders, and the American Whigs. In addition to in-depth consideration of Emerson’s journals and lectures, Dolan provides original commentary on many of Emerson’s most celebrated published works, including Nature, the “Divinity School Address,” “History,” “Compensation,” “Experience,” the political addresses of the early 1840s, “An Address . . . on . . . The Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies,” Representative Men, English Traits, and The Conduct of Life. He considers Emerson’s distinctive elaborations of foundational liberal values—progress, reason, work, property, limited government, rights, civil society, liberty, commerce, and empiricism. And he argues that Emerson’s ideas are a morally bracing and spiritually inspiring resource for the ongoing sustenance of American culture and civilization, reminding us of the depth, breadth, and strength of our common liberal inheritance.

Emerson's Literary Criticism

Emerson's Literary Criticism PDF Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803267282
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Ralph Waldo Emerson has always fascinated students of criticism and of American literature and thought. Emerson’s Literary Criticism supplies the continuing need for an anthology. This collection brings together Emerson’s literary criticism from a wide variety of sources. Eric W. Carlson has culled both the major statements of Emerson's critical principles and many secondary observations that illuminate them. Here are more than sixty selections on thirty-five critical topics. Headnotes provide valuable background. Carlson relates Emerson’s critical principles to his philosophy, social thought, and literary milieu, and also to biographical details. Intended for the student as well as the researcher, this book amply illustrates Alfred Kazin's contention that Ralph Waldo Emerson was "one of the shrewdest critics who ever lived."

The American Scholar

The American Scholar PDF Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category : Learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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The Reinterpretation of American Literature

The Reinterpretation of American Literature PDF Author: Norman Foerster
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Ex Libris

Ex Libris PDF Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 714

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The Structure of Leaves of Grass

The Structure of Leaves of Grass PDF Author: Thomas Edward Crawley
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292766203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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Modern critics and contemporary readers familiar with the field of Whitman criticism may find surprising an analysis of the structure of Leaves of Grass that concerns itself with Whitman as the poet-prophet and the identification of Whitman (or of his persona in the poem) with Christ. Early twentieth-century criticism has tended to exalt the early Whitman at the expense of the later one and to regard as poetically inferior the image of the national and democratically prophetic Whitman as expressed in the later editions. Thomas Edward Crawley, in full knowledge of the contemporary currents of Whitman criticism, chooses to revert to this older view, through which he sheds new light on Whitman’s artistic achievement. The basic premise of this study is that Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a unified work, lyrical, yet epic in quality, design, and spirit. Crawley’s purpose is to demonstrate the basis of this unity: its origin and operation and the nature of its realization. He demonstrates that an aesthetically maturing Whitman, in this work, was finally able to harmoniously bring together his individual and social subject matter. Crawley defines the unifying spirit of Leaves of Grass in terms of Whitman’s concept of the poet-prophet and the poet-reader relationship. This concept is conveyed primarily through the development of the Christ- symbol, the dominant image in the poem. Through a careful analysis of Whitman’s handling of the simultaneous development of the poet-prophet and the nation, his masterful fusion of the personal element and the national element, an understanding of the complex structure of Leaves of Grass emerges. Crawley presents an analysis of Whitman’s final and carefully arrived at grouping of the lyrics in the 1881 edition according to a definite, distinguishable pattern—a pattern revealed in Whitman’s use of allusions, in his transitional poems and passages, and, most important, in his thematic handling of imagery. The cumulative effect of these devices is emphasized. The organic development of Leaves of Grass, made possible by Whitman’s faith in and careful adherence to his concept of the organic theory of art, is substantiated. Crawley concludes his analysis with a detailed examination of the growth of Leaves of Grass as reflected in the various editions leading up to the 1881 volume, the last to be revised and published by Whitman.

University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences

University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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