Emerson - Hardcover

Buell, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674011392 ISBN 13: 9780674011397

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2003

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Book by Buell Lawrence

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In this book Lawrence Buell shows us why Emerson remains worth reading in our own time...What Buell has to say here about Emerson is not only persuasive but also consistently interesting, surprisingly original...and, best of all, written in straightforward, lucid language...Buell's discussion of the relationship between Emerson and his prize pupil, Henry David Thoreau, is brilliant.--Daniel W. Howe"Common-Place" (10/01/2003) Lawrence Buell has written a comprehensive, penetrating and timely study, the distillation of a lifetime's scholarship, of this great thinker and writer, 'the poet of ordinary days, ' as his disciple, John Dewey, beautifully called him.--John Banville"Irish Times" (11/01/2003) In this book Buell distills a lifetime of study and teaching on Emerson. Its tone is easy and confident, friendly and inviting, and Buell's aim is to share his admiration for America's first public intellectual with a new generation of readers.--P. J. Ferlazzo"Choice" (11/01/2003) I learned from and greatly enjoyed reading Lawrence Buell's "Emerson".--Susan Sontag"Times Literary Supplement" (12/05/2003)

Reseña del editor:

"An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man", Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote - an in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a "representative man". Born into the age of inspired amateurism that emerged from the ruins of pre-revolutionary politics, religious and cultural institutions, Emerson took up the challenge of thinking about the role of the United States alone and in the world. With characteristic authority and grace, Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment - in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as a writer, religious thinker, and philosopher. Here we see clearly the paradoxical key to his success, the fierce insistence on independence that acted so magnetically upon all around him. Steeped in Emerson's writings, and in the life and lore of the America of his day, Buell's book is as individual - and as compelling - as its subject. At a time when Americans and non-Americans alike are struggling to understand what this country, is, and what it is about, Emerson gives is an answer in the figure of this representative American, an American for all, and for all times.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0674011392
• ISBN 13: 9780674011397
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336