A liberal education in late Emerson : readings in the rhetoric of mind /
Recent scholarship has inspired growing interest in the later work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and a recognition that the conventional view of an aging Emerson, distant from public matters and limited by declining mental powers, needs rethinking. Sean Meehan's book reclaims three importa...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House.,
2019.
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Colección: | Mind and American literature.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: late Emerson and the recomposition of liberal education
- "Natural method of mental philosophy": William James's principles of pedagogy
- "Education": Charles W. Eliot's invention of the university
- "Poetry and imagination": rhetorical exercises in Walt Whitman's Gymnasium
- "Eloquence": lessons in Emerson's rhetoric of metonymy.