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Author: John Carlos Rowe
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780231058940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.
Author: Russell Sbriglia
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2017-02-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0822373386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChallenging the widely-held assumption that Slavoj Žižek's work is far more germane to film and cultural studies than to literary studies, this volume demonstrates the importance of Žižek to literary criticism and theory. The contributors show how Žižek's practice of reading theory and literature through one another allows him to critique, complicate, and advance the understanding of Lacanian psychoanalysis and German Idealism, thereby urging a rethinking of historicity and universality. His methodology has implications for analyzing literature across historical periods, nationalities, and genres and can enrich theoretical frameworks ranging from aesthetics, semiotics, and psychoanalysis to feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, and ecocriticism. The contributors also offer Žižekian interpretations of a wide variety of texts, including Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Samuel Beckett's Not I, and William Burroughs's Nova Trilogy. The collection includes an essay by Žižek on subjectivity in Shakespeare and Beckett. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Literature but Were Afraid to Ask Žižek affirms Žižek's value to literary studies while offering a rigorous model of Žižekian criticism. Contributors. Shawn Alfrey, Daniel Beaumont, Geoff Boucher, Andrew Hageman, Jamil Khader, Anna Kornbluh, Todd McGowan, Paul Megna, Russell Sbriglia, Louis-Paul Willis, Slavoj Žižek
Author: Johannes Voelz
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 1584659483
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: C & R Crime
Published: 2012-03-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1780337736
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chase is on - and Amelia Peabody and Co. are in the thick of it! 1922 - convinced that the tomb of the little-known King Tutankhamon lies somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, Emerson has tried to persuade his rivals Lord Carnavon and Howard Carter to hand over their digging rights in the valley to him - but they resist. So back in Luxor an incident at the hotel the clan is staying in turns their gifts for digging in another direction. Emerson and Ramses are lured into a trap by a group of villains who demand answers to the mysterious question, 'Where is he?'. Their curiosity piqued, the duo is determined to uncover who 'he' is and why 'he' should be so important.
Author: Christopher Hanlon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0190842520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: Recalling Emerson -- Emerson's memory loss -- Knowing by heart -- Streams of thought -- Coda: Inside information
Author: Randall Fuller
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-09-07
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 019029535X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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.
Author: Michael Magee
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004-04-12
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0817350845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA daring and innovative study that rewrites the story of American pragmatism. Emancipating Pragmatism is a radical rereading of Emerson that posits African- American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition. It traces Emerson's philosophical legacy through the 19th and 20th centuries to discover how Emersonian thought continues to inform issues of race, aesthetics, and poetic discourse. Emerson's pragmatism derives from his abolitionism, Michael Magee argues, and any pragmatic thought that aspires toward democracy canno.
Author: Jeffrey Insko
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 0198825641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in the writings of several familiar figures in antebellum US literary history.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 0791081184
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRalph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was the most influential American writer of the nineteenth century. Poets such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens descend from Emerson, as do thinkers such as John Dewey and William James. This volume of critical interpretations focuses on Emerson's Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), which encompass some of his most important works-"History," "Self-Reliance," "Circles," "The Poet," and "Experience" among others. These essays exemplify Emerson's distinctively rich prose and his radical affirmation of the strength of the individual. The analyses and appreciations collected here place Emerson's essays in the context of literary and intellectual history, grapple with the implications of his epigrams and tropes, and link his shifts of perspective and tone to the changes in Emerson's life. Together they illuminate the complexity and scope of the seminal works of America's most influential writer and thinker. Book jacket.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 21
ISBN-13: 1410356698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Ralph Waldo Emerson's "The Rhodora," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
