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O'Keefe, Richard R.

 
9780873385183: Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Blakean Reading
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ISBN 10: 0873385187 ISBN 13: 9780873385183
Editorial: Kent State University Press, 1995

Sinopsis

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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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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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.

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Editorial
Kent State University Press
Año de publicación
1995
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ISBN 10 
0873385187
ISBN 13 
9780873385183
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Número de páginas
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