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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Transcendentalist"”.
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… that endorses the reality of this dimension Transcendentalist Aesthetics. The term "Transcendentalist" recalls the philosophy of New England Transcendentalism with its core in Ralph Waldo Emerson, and which influenced the philosophical writings of Charles S. Peirce and the art of the …
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Sociological critique and the philosophy of practice
… as critique is found to consist in opposition to transcendentalist logic: authoritarianism in theory and practice. Logically, critique, itself, has to be defined in its negativism: in its indefatigable commitment to grasp transcendentalist logic, via various hermeneutic strategies, as ideology; …
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INDIGENOUS CHRISTIANITY: EARLY MISSIONARY ENCOUNTERS AND RELIGIOUS CHANGE IN NIAS, INDONESIA (1865-1908)
… traditional ‘immanentist’ Nias culture and ‘transcendentalist’ Christianity brought by German missionaries during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The early encounter between Nias culture and Christianity offers an example of a process through which syncretism arises. The thesis …
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The Hybrid Apostle: A Religious and Cultural Biography of Father Isaac Hecker's Early Life and the Origin of American Catholicism, 1837-1858
… reform politics, which led him later to join the Transcendentalist communes at Brook Farm and Fruitlands in 1843. The essence of this study traces the intellectual and cultural movements within Transcendentalism that led Hecker in the direction of joining the Catholic Church. This study …
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In reality meager: eluding death anxiety in Walt Whitman and Federico Garcia Lorca's poetics of the body
… achieving immortality through construction of a transcendentalist “over-soul,” Lorca envisions an unending dance with death through the Andalusian ideology of “duende.” Through analysis of the poet’s body, the homosexual body, and the African-American body, I identify the means through which …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
… is seeing a revival in the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist ideals and philosophy. The works and philosophy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), John Keats (1795-1821), as well as Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), among …
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A Poetics of Paradox : Reality and the Imagination in the Meta-Poetry of Louis Dudek
… ways in which he balances competing realist and transcendentalist urges over the course of a career that spans more than sixty years. From his earliest “social-realist” poetry and polemics in the 1940s to his late “transcendental-realist” poems, Dudek displays a consistent interest in the poetic …
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Panography
… this is still possible). Panography is neither transcendentalist nor environmentalist in its primary agenda. Pan, as a hybrid of the human and the bestial, and as an archetype that has been carried to the present exclusively through artistic and scholarly works, is an ideal nexus for a …
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Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857
… romances (1821-23), Ralph Waldo Emerson’s transcendentalist addresses (1837), Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s didactic allegories (1836-37), and Herman Melville’s anti-novel (1857) are fundamentally concerned with the economic problems of panics, including excess, abundance, and scarcity. </p> …
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
… member of a community in the long run. This Transcendentalist tenet is expanded throughout the original novel, as well as the appended stories. Using natural settings as a "school" for transcendence, Jewett also touches on the Transcendentalist tenet of “the great and small," as seen in …
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Theology and Politics in Maimonides, Spinoza, Hegel, and Nietzsche
… Maimonides clearly represents the traditional, transcendentalist perspective and explicitly champions theocracy as a political ideal, Spinoza, Hegel, and Nietzsche may be grouped together as partisans of a common philosophical agenda, an agenda deliberately crafted in opposition to the …
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Countless Cross-Fertilizations: Gary Snyder as a Post-Romantic Poet
This thesis examines Romantic (including American Transcendentalist) legacies in the poetry of Gary Snyder. It traces connections and conversations between Snyder and his Romantic predecessors, especially Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau, and it seeks to demonstrate the workings of …
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An exploration of characteristic elements intrinsic to the matrix of John Steinbeck's fiction and their effect on the critical reception of his work, with particular reference to a God unknown
… to take cognisance of the Oriental aspect of the Transcendentalist influence on Steinbeck's world-view in order to understand the confluence of apparently irreconcilable philosophical and mythological anomalies in Steinbeck's fiction.
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An interpretation of Thoreau's philosophy
… Oriental chapter. Thoreau was a self-confessed Transcendentalist. He was too close a follower of Emerson not to incorporate in his philosophy the principles of the American School of Transcendentalism. He was not interested, however, in formulating any system of Transcendentalism, as was …
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"In Death Thy Life is Found": An Examination of the Forgotten Poetry of Margaret Fuller.
<p>Despite the recent scholarship that has been performed on Margaret Fuller, very little has focused on the varied body of poetry she composed during her brief life. By dividing her poetic works into three categories – those written to an early “lover,” those focusing on the theme of androgyny, …