American Metempsychosis : Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
ISBN: 9780823242344 | 082324234X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Fordham University Press
Pub. Date: 3/1/2012
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"The transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human." With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history. Americans, Emerson argues, must realize history's chronology in themselves--because their own minds and bodies are its evolving record. Whereas scholarship has tended to minimize the mystical underpinnings of Emerson's notion of the self, his depictions o... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Metempsychotic Mind | p. 11 |
| The Double Consciousness | p. 39 |
| Reading the Metempsychotic Text | p. 73 |
| Writing the Metempsychotic Text | p. 104 |
| The New Poetry | p. 135 |
| Conclusion | p. 167 |
| Notes | p. 177 |
| Bibliography | p. 225 |
| Index | p. 237 |
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John Michael Corrigan is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Ming Chuan University, Taiwan.
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