Emerson And The Climates Of History

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Emerson And The Climates Of History

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Author : Eduardo Cadava
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022

Emerson And The Climates Of History written by Eduardo Cadava and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.

This book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather. Focusing on Emerson's persistent use of climatic and meteorological metaphors, the book demonstrates that Emerson's reflections on the weather are inseparable from his preoccupation with the central historical and political issues of his day. The author suggests that Emerson's writings may be read as both symptomatic and critical of the governing rhetorics through which Americans of his day thought about the most important contemporary issues, and that what has often been seen as Emerson's retreat from the arena of history into the domain of spirit is in fact an effort to re-treat or rethink the nature of history in terms of questions of representation. What distinguishes this book from the work of other critics who are reassessing Emerson's relation to history is its attempt to think through the way in which the figures of Emerson's rhetoric--figures (like frost, snow, the auroras, and nature in general) which often seem to have nothing to do with either history or politics--are themselves traversed by the conflictual histories of slavery, race, destiny, revolution, and the meaning of America. It differs, that is, in proposing a textual model for reading Emerson that measures his engagement with changing historical and political relations in terms of the way he works to revise the language he inherits. There can be no reading of Emerson, the author suggests, that does not trace the movement of his figures and tropes as they become something else, as they open onto questions of history.

Emerson And The Climates Of History

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Author : Eduardo Cadava
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997

Emerson And The Climates Of History written by Eduardo Cadava and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.

This book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather. Focusing on Emerson's persistent use of climatic and meteorological metaphors, the book demonstrates that Emerson's reflections on the weather are inseparable from his preoccupation with the central historical and political issues of his day. The author suggests that Emerson's writings may be read as both symptomatic and critical of the governing rhetorics through which Americans of his day thought about the most important contemporary issues, and that what has often been seen as Emerson's retreat from the arena of history into the domain of spirit is in fact an effort to re-treat or rethink the nature of history in terms of questions of representation. What distinguishes this book from the work of other critics who are reassessing Emerson's relation to history is its attempt to think through the way in which the figures of Emerson's rhetoric—figures (like frost, snow, the auroras, and nature in general) which often seem to have nothing to do with either history or politics—are themselves traversed by the conflictual histories of slavery, race, destiny, revolution, and the meaning of America. It differs, that is, in proposing a textual model for reading Emerson that measures his engagement with changing historical and political relations in terms of the way he works to revise the language he inherits. There can be no reading of Emerson, the author suggests, that does not trace the movement of his figures and tropes as they become something else, as they open onto questions of history.

The Complete Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson Natural History Of Intellect And Other Papers

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Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979

The Complete Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson Natural History Of Intellect And Other Papers written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.

A Historical Guide To Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Author : Joel Myerson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-13

A Historical Guide To Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Joel Myerson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-13 with Literary Criticism categories.

There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. In his time, he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement and his poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life. In this volume, Joel Myerson, one of the leading experts on this period, has gathered together sparkling new essays that discuss Emerson as a product of his times. Individual chapters provide an extended biographical study of Emerson and his effect on American life, followed by studies of his concept of individualism, nature and natural science, religion, antislavery, and women's rights.

Emerson S English Traits And The Natural History Of Metaphor

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Author : David LaRocca
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2013-09-26

Emerson S English Traits And The Natural History Of Metaphor written by David LaRocca and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Literary Criticism categories.

Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally. David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, English Traits (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race. In the first book-length study of English Traits in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Author : Prentiss Clark
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-01-05

Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Prentiss Clark and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-05 with Literary Criticism categories.

In his 1837 speech "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "life is our dictionary," encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet, philosopher, lecturer, essayist and editor. There are nearly 100 entries on individual texts and their personal, historical and literary contexts. Emerson's work is placed within his relationships with family members, fellow Transcendentalists and transatlantic friends, and his commitment to ethics, self-culture and social change. This book provides the fullest possible exploration of Emerson's writing and philosophy. Far ahead of his own time, the man enthusiastically questioned institutions, communities, friendships, history, individuality and contemporaneous approaches to environmental stewardship.

Transcendental Resistance

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Author : Johannes Voelz
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2010

Transcendental Resistance written by Johannes Voelz and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.

A timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists

Emerson S Ghosts

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Author : Associate Professor of English Randall Fuller
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2007-09-07

Emerson S Ghosts written by Associate Professor of English Randall Fuller and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-09-07 with Literary Collections categories.

This study examines the way influential 20th century critics have understood and deployed Emerson as part of their own larger projects aimed at reconceiving America

Emerson S Complete Works

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Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903

Emerson S Complete Works written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with categories.

On Religion And Memory

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Author : Babette Hellemans
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2013-05

On Religion And Memory written by Babette Hellemans and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Religion and Pastness examines the implications of the Augustinian concept of time as favoring a-causality over linear continuity. From this viewpoint the various essays address problems of dynamics and stasis in texts, paintings and music ranging from Augustine to Abelard, Eriugena, Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, Rubens, Bach, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Virginia Woolf, Cavell.