Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean ReadingKent State University Press, 1995 - 228 pagina's 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 American version of Blake's fourfold myth of Creation, Fall, Redemption, and Apocalypse. The presence of these recurrent mythic metaphors leads him to conclude that Emerson appears less as a Transcendental sage and more as a radical existential poet, visionary, and prophet. O'Keefe presents a balanced selection of works from Emerson's early and late career and provides particularly insightful readings of "Circle" and the Divinity School "Address." His innovative study will be of value to scholars of Emerson, Blake, and American romanticism as well as to critical theorists and comparative literature specialists. |
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The Dialectical Imagination | 6 |
Eyeballs Windows and the Worlds Body | 29 |
Circles Wheels and Cycles | 69 |
Jesus Lost and Jesus Regained | 104 |
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Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading Richard R. O'Keefe Fragmentweergave - 1995 |
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Albion American Scholar Apocalypse archetypal Bard Barish becomes Blakean central chapter Cheyfitz Chimney Sweeper Christ Christian circle Complete concept context critical dialectical Divinity School Address dream earth Edward Waldo Emer Emerson and Blake Emerson's Hamatreya Emerson's Nature Emerson's thought Emersonian energy essay eternal experience fact Fall fallen father Felpham figure Four Zoas Freud Harold Bloom Hodder human imagination Innocence inspiration Jerusalem Jesus Journals and Notebooks later lecture Leverenz Lord's Supper M. H. Abrams Marriage meaning Mental Traveller metaphor Milton mode mother myth mythic Oedipal Orphic Orphic Poet Palamabron passage perception perhaps philosophical poem Poetic Genius Poetry and Prose prophecies prophet radical Ralph Waldo Emerson reader redemption reveals rhetorical Romantic sense sexual Songs Songs of Experience soul speaker spirit stanza suggests Sun-flower symbol theory things tion Transcendentalists transparent eyeball universe vision visionary Whicher William Blake words writing