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Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading
Richard R. O´keefe
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Description for Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading
Hardcover. This work explores Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays as mythic prose poems, suggesting a new approach to the practical criticism of his works. It presents a balanced selection of works from Emerson's early and late career and provides insightful readings of "Circles" and the Divinity School "Address". Num Pages: 256 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; DSA; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 408.
Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the American writer’s essays as mythic prose poems, suggesting a new approach to the practical criticism of Emerson’s works. Richard O’Keefe uses the archetypal model-a critical tool seldom employed on American Romantics, yet frequently applied in the study of British Romantic poets such as William Blake-to contemporize methods of examining Emersonian texts. Blake and Emerson, both products of a Christian culture, found themselves forced-a generation apart and quite independently-to redefine and reinterpret the traditional body of Christian myth they had inherited. Concentrating on the Romantic, prophetic voice in Emerson’s writings, O’Keefe discovers an ... Read more
Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the American writer’s essays as mythic prose poems, suggesting a new approach to the practical criticism of Emerson’s works. Richard O’Keefe uses the archetypal model-a critical tool seldom employed on American Romantics, yet frequently applied in the study of British Romantic poets such as William Blake-to contemporize methods of examining Emersonian texts. Blake and Emerson, both products of a Christian culture, found themselves forced-a generation apart and quite independently-to redefine and reinterpret the traditional body of Christian myth they had inherited. Concentrating on the Romantic, prophetic voice in Emerson’s writings, O’Keefe discovers an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kent State Univ Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873385183
SKU
V9780873385183
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