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Showing 1 to 20 of 208 for “"Emerson"”.
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Emerson, Greenough, and the transcendental esthetic
The New England transcendentalists have not generally been considered first and foremost as the founders and champions of an esthetic philosophy in America. They were ministers, most of them, ostensibly concerned more with man's prospects of salvation than with the contemplation of Beauty. …
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American transcendental vision: Emerson to Chaplin
Ralph Waldo Emerson's publication of Nature in 1836 began a process of creating a new condition of American thinking, severed from European cultural and intellectual influences. The subsequent lectures The American Scholar and The Divinity School Address furthered this process, calling for an …
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Emerson, Nietzsche, and the Legacy of Method
While the Emerson-Nietzsche influence question is well established in the critical literature, most studies have investigated very narrow correspondences and have not integrated these observations into a broader theory of Emerson's influence. After reviewing the history of the question, the present …
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Emerson And The Vision Of The Child
This work argues for a reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson that takes into account his childhood and early upbringing, and thereby reads his mature philosophical works as reactionary enabling mythologies that were forged by his troubled childhood.
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
A genealogical continuity between Ralph Waldo Emerson and American pragmatism has been one of the most prominent narratives constructed by scholars of American intellectual history in recent decades. This dissertation unsettles this selective interpretation of American thought rooted in the …
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The friendship of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, English, 1929.
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Acquisition and development strategies for the Emerson College properties
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1985.
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My Higher Self: Elizabeth Bishop and the Endurance of Emerson
… no substantial study of what role Ralph Waldo Emerson singularly played in the inheritance of that tradition. This essay seeks to validate Emerson as Bishop's literary parentage, an influence that, though not immediately identifiable, greatly shaped her creative process. In so doing, it …
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The Poetics of Emerson: An Emersonian Adaptation of Platonic Idealism
… great American essayist and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, perhaps may he found the most efficacious panacea for the prevalent decadence of the poetic art and craft as well as for their enjoyment by the discriminating lovers of poetry. Exalted though the idea of his universal "Poet" may he, the …
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… Transcendentalism with its core in Ralph Waldo Emerson, and which influenced the philosophical writings of Charles S. Peirce and the art of the nineteenth-century American landscape painters of the Hudson River School and Luminism. The primary overall goal is to present and argue for a …
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Ever-Evolving Art of Self-Reliant Reading
… is a significant component of contemporary Emerson scholarship, but few scholars have examined the way in which reading--almost unarguably Emerson's favorite pastime--can contribute to this canonical Emersonian idea. By delineating a passage in Emerson's journal which purports to entail the …
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Locating representation: Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Brown, and the manifestation of biography
… work explores the synthesis of Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1838 address "History" with the life of John Brown. In his address Emerson declares that "there is no history; only biography," and from this statement the foundation for Representative Men is put in place. Although nearly 21 years …
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Ralph Waldo Emerson : internal conflict of the soul : a romantic unsolved issue
… objectivo deste estudo é o de identificar o tema Emerson’s Conflict of the Soul no contexto do Séc. XIX, durante o qual a América procurava defenir a sua própria identidade através duma procura espirítual. Tendo em conta o passado, esta tese, explora as diferenças básicas entre os discursos …
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William Blake's American legacy: transcendentalism and visionary poetics in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman
… in Blake that can be dated from Ralph Waldo Emerson's early reading of Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1842. Chapter one will show that the New England Transcendentalists - primarily Emerson, but also Elizabeth Peabody and readers of the transcendentalis publication The Harbinger - were …
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