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  1. American Metempsychosis
    Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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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 of "the metempsychosis of nature" reveal deep roots in mystical traditions from Hinduism and Buddhism to Platonism and Christian esotericism. In essay after essay, Emerson uses metempsychosis as an open-ended template to understand human development.In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman transforms Emerson’s conception of metempsychotic selfhood into an expressly poetic event. His vision of transmigration viscerally celebrates the poet’s ability to assume and live in other bodies; his American poet seeks to incorporate the entire nation into his own person so that he can speak for every man and woman

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823242375
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    Subjects: American Literature; Esotericism; Hinduism; History of Science; Idealism; Identity; Mysticism; Neoplatonism; Philosophy; Platonism; Religion; Romanticism; Transcendentalism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature; Transmigration in literature
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  2. American Metempsychosis
    Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry
    Published: [2012]; © 2012
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    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... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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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 of "the metempsychosis of nature" reveal deep roots in mystical traditions from Hinduism and Buddhism to Platonism and Christian esotericism. In essay after essay, Emerson uses metempsychosis as an open-ended template to understand human development.In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman transforms Emerson’s conception of metempsychotic selfhood into an expressly poetic event. His vision of transmigration viscerally celebrates the poet’s ability to assume and live in other bodies; his American poet seeks to incorporate the entire nation into his own person so that he can speak for every man and woman

     

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    Content information
    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823242375
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: American Literature; Esotericism; Hinduism; History of Science; Idealism; Identity; Mysticism; Neoplatonism; Philosophy; Platonism; Religion; Romanticism; Transcendentalism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature; Transmigration in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (254 pages)
    Notes:

    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)