Consciousness and culture : Emerson and Thoreau reviewed /

Joel Porte examines the relationship between Emerson & Thoreau two of America's greatest writers. Sometimes characterised as rivals, sometimes as master & protegé, Porte argues that they were in fact complimentary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring & inspired.

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Hlavní autor: Porte, Joel
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Haven : Yale University Press ©2004.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1nq40z
Obsah:
  • Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness
  • Transcendental antics
  • The problem of Emerson
  • Representing America
  • Emerson as journalist
  • Emerson at Harvard
  • Holmes's Emerson
  • Emerson's French connection
  • Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa
  • Society and solitude
  • "God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith
  • "In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau
  • Writing and reading New Englandly.
  • Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness
  • Transcendental antics
  • The problem of Emerson
  • Representing America
  • Emerson as journalist
  • Emerson at Harvard
  • Holmes's Emerson
  • Emerson's French connection
  • Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Polupholoisboios Thalassa
  • Society and solitude
  • "God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith
  • "In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau
  • Writing and reading New Englandly.