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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Ralph Waldo Emerson"”.
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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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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
<p>This 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
… interest 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 …
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American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the "end of History"
… that provided a foundational inspiration for Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and American Transcendentalism writ-large. Despite Carlyle being a chief source of inspiration for American Transcendentalism, his political theory did not inspire the development of a widely adopted …
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Senses of the Future in 19th Century France and America, with Reference to the Philosophies of Victor Cousin, Henri Bergson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James
… of philosophers in Victor Cousin, Henri Bergson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William James, each of whom sought to resolve past, present, and future in a true vision of the world. I argue that these visions should be characterised as sets of practical accomplishments. That is to say, if they could be …
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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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The Primacy of the Individual: Its Affirmation in the Declaration of Independence and in the American Scholar
… with the ideas in The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Indeed, thinkers of every variety have Interested themselves in these two paramount documents because their contents prove them to be genuine instruments of American nationalism. In short, each of these contributions is a …
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My Higher Self: Elizabeth Bishop and the Endurance of Emerson
… is to date 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 …
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Finding the Self
… techniques of Billy Collins, E. E. Cummings, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Brenda Hillman, Ted Kooser, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lynn McMahon, Mary Oliver, Charles Olsen, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens. Additionally, Mark Strand and Evan Boland are featured for their commentary on the work of …
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The Poetics of Emerson: An Emersonian Adaptation of Platonic Idealism
… of that 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 …
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Toward a Posthuman Ecology: Evolutionary Aesthetics in Transatlantic Romanticism
… and Charles Darwin, Mary and Percy Shelley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Emily Dickinson. I connect aesthetic innovation to ethics to ask more broadly how literature can provide an affective and effective space to represent and engage scientific discourse. I conclude that understanding the …
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The Transatlantic Renewal of Textual Practices: Philology, Religion, and Classicism in Madame de Staël, Herder, and Emerson
… by many Antebellum American scholars, especially Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… of three figures in American Transcendentalism—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman—is offered. By thinking communication as testimony, as a making sense in common, the relationship between communication and a radical democracy to come is brought into relief.
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From typology to aesthetics in American literature
… major works of John Winthrop, Mary Rowlandson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville in order to investigate how typology was employed by each of them and develops into modern symbolism. This thesis documents some stages in the origins of symbolism and its usage in …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
… as well as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), among others and their critics are all considered for points of comparison to the modern lyrics. The reason for this revival is considered in the conclusion chapter in terms of why there is a reaction against the …
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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 Sublime and the Dutiful: Ethics and Excess From Edwards to Melville
… as Jonathan Edwards, Charles Brockden Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville. Each, in his own way, shows how the sublime can be dutiful---how it can constitute not one self's recovered and isolated sense of itself, but rather its constitutive connection to others.
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Moral perfectionism, infinite responsibility, and the ethical in critical race theory
… between the theoretical contributions of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, and Emmanuel Levinas regarding ethics and the ethical, and I argue that all four thinkers fall under the broad classification of moral perfectionist thought, albeit with distinct core assumptions …
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