Three roads back : how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James responded to the greatest losses of their lives /
"This book explores resilience by tracing the linked stories of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James dealt with personal tragedy: for Emerson, the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, the death of his brother; and for Ja...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2023]
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2svjz79 |
Obsah:
- Building his own world
- I will be a naturalist
- The gallantry of the private heart
- The green world
- Regeneration through nature
- The cup that my father gives me
- I had hoped to be spared this
- On every side is depth unfathomable
- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually
- Death is the law of new life
- My friend is my real brother
- Emerson commissions a book review
- Our own limits transgressed
- The death of Minny Temple
- Minny and Henry
- Minny and William
- From panic and despair to the acceptance of free will
- The self-governing resistance of the ego to the world.