Visibility beyond the visible : the poetic discourse of American transcendentalism /

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Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism is the first study to entirely deal with the poetics of American Transcendentalism. The author takes it for granted that the major New England transcendentalists were writers of utmost literary significance and so focu...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bakracheva, Albena (Author)
Other Authors: Nikolova, Olga (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Bulgarian
Published: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Costerus ; new ser., v. 196.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > New England > History and criticism > 19th century.
Transcendentalism in literature.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Transcendantalisme dans la littérature.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Transcendentalism in literature
New England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The New England identity of the term
  • Puritanism and eighteenth-century rationalism
  • Unitarianism and transcendentalism
  • The emphasis on inspiration in transcendental aesthetics
  • Transcendentalism: poetic-religious practice and way of life
  • The New England horizons of post-Kantianism: Emerson
  • The vision of the New England transcendentalist: Thoreau
  • The enchantment of the voyage back: Margaret Fuller
  • Traditions and individual talent. Emerson and Thoreau ; Self-reliance ; "Thoreau"
  • Life as vocation. The harmony with the not-me: A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ; The artistic harmony: Walden
  • Homocentrism and ecocentrism.

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