Mind and American Literature – serie
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Imagination and Idealism in John Updike's Fiction
Inbunden, 2017
823 kr
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Concentrating on the role of the imagination in Updike's works, this book shows him to be an original and powerful thinker and not the callow sensationalist that he is sometimes accused of being.This book looks past the frequently discussed autobiographical nature of John Updike's fiction to …
Civilizing Thoreau
Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works
Inbunden, 2016
1428 kr
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Proposes an interdisciplinary solution to the "Thoreau problem" through the connection between his ecological study of nature and his intense interest in the emerging social sciences.Recent book-length studies of Thoreau have focused either on his place in the history of the natural sciences or …
American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice
Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe
Av Kristen Case
Häftad, 2017
382 kr
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Innovative study that sees much of twentieth-century American poetry as enacting, in language, pragmatic philosophy.Wittgenstein wrote that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry." American poetry has long engaged questions about subject and object, self and environment, …
Liberal Education in Late Emerson
Readings in the Rhetoric of Mind
Inbunden, 2019
1207 kr
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Counters the view of the late Emerson's decline by rethinking his engagement with liberal education and his intellectual relation to Whitman, William James, Charles Eliot, and Du Bois.Recent scholarship has inspired growing interest in the later work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and a …
