Emerson's Literary Criticism
Emerson's Literary Criticism

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780803267282

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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."

Listening on All Sides
Listening on All Sides

Author: Richard Deming

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780804757386

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Bringing together Continental literary theory and Anglo-American philosophy, Listening on All Sides reads the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathanial Hawthorne, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams to uncover the role literary texts play in the way that language use creates and defines culture and ethics.

Changing Lives Through Literature
Changing Lives Through Literature

Author: Robert P. Waxler

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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When the members of the group, who had been pushed to the margins and refused a voice, began to rediscover their identity, the idea for this anthology was born." "This book will arouse interest in anyone involved in, or moved by, the "Changing Lives through Literature" program. It is truly a valuable gift for alternative learners: criminal offenders in or out of prison, displaced workers, and any reader failed by the traditional educational system."--BOOK JACKET.