Writing Beyond Prophecy

Writing Beyond Prophecy

Author: Martin Kevorkian

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2013-01-02

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0807147613

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Drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by three authors. Identifying a line of writing from Ralph Waldo Emerson s Conduct of Life to Nathaniel Hawthorne s posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscripts to Herman Melville s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their sense of vocational calling.