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Visibility beyond the Visible. : The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism.
Title:
Visibility beyond the Visible. : The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism.
Author:
Bakratcheva, Albena.
ISBN:
9789401208314
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- I CORE TENETS OF AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM -- Chapter One: The New England Identity of the Term -- Chapter Two: Puritanism and Eighteenth-Century Rationalism -- Chapter Three: Unitarianism and Transcendentalism -- Chapter Four: The Emphasis on Inspiration in Transcendental Aesthetics -- Chapter Five: Transcendentalism: Poetic-Religious Practice and Way of Life -- II TRANSCENDENTALISM AND ROMANTICISM -- Chapter Six: The New England Horizons of Post-Kantianism -- Chapter Seven: The Vision of the New England Transcendentalist -- Chapter Eight: The Enchantment of the Voyage Back -- III TRANSCENDENTALISM: A CREED OF SELF AND NATURE -- Chapter Nine: Traditions and Individual Talent -- Self-Reliance -- "Thoreau" -- Chapter Ten: Life as Vocation -- The Harmony with the Not-Me: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -- The Artistic Harmony: Walden -- Chapter Eleven: Homocentrism and Ecocentrism -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 focuses thoroughly on their extremely rich and many-sided poetic discourse. The book's inevitable European perspective only enhances its preoccupation with the Americanness of the New England Transcendentalists, thus making it emphasize, in all the aspects of its concern, the uniqueness of the interrelation between place-sense and artistry which the transcendentalists' writings offer. Because most of these writings hold iconic stature as American masterpieces, both scholars and lay readers will welcome Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism as opening novel horizons for greater insights, deeper understandings, and further exploration of the poetic complexities of Emerson's, Thoreau's, M. Fuller's, and their co-thinkers' work.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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