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Claudia Emerson, 31st Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textClaudia Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book Late Wife: Poems (LSU Press, 2005). She is also the author of the poetry collections Pharaoh, Pharaoh, and Pinion: An Elegy; all volumes are published in Dave Smith’s Southern Messenger Poets series. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review and other journals. Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va
Beena Sarwar Author Archives in The Wire
No full textSeveral reports and opeds at this link https://thewire.in/author/beena-sarwa
A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
No full textFrom before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States’ most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation’s liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson’s political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the detached sage of individualism. In the 1990s, scholars rediscovered Emerson’s antislavery writings and began reviving his legacy as a political activist. A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson is the first collection to evaluate Emerson’s political thought in light of his recently rediscovered political activism.
What were Emerson’s politics? A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson authoritatively answers this question with seminal essays by some of the most prominent thinkers ever to write about Emerson—Stanley Cavell, George Kateb, Judith N. Shklar, and Wilson Carey McWilliams—as well as many of today’s leading Emerson scholars. With an introduction that effectively destroys the “pernicious myth about Emerson’s apolitical individualism” by editors Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk, this volume reassesses Emerson’s famous theory of self-reliance in light of his antislavery politics, demonstrates the importance of transcendentalism to his politics, and explores the enduring significance of his thought for liberal democracy.
Including a substantial bibliography of work on Emerson’s politics over the last century, A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson is an indispensable resource for students of Emerson, American literature, and American political thought, as well as for those who wrestle with the fundamental challenges of democracy and liberalism.
Alan M. Levine, associate professor of political theory at American University, is the author of Sensual Philosophy: Toleration, Skepticism, and Montaigne’s Politics of the Self.
Daniel S. Malachuk, associate professor of English at Western Illinois University, is the author of Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism.
This volume will quickly become indispensible for anyone writing about Emerson as a political thinker. -- Alex Zakaras, author of Mass Democracy: Mill, Emerson, and the Burdens of Citizenship
An important and timely corrective to the political inheritance of Emerson’s thinking—especially to the long-standing ‘pernicious myth’ of Emerson’s apolitical individualism. This collection demonstrates how Emerson is, and always has been, essential to our understanding and theorizing of American politics. -- David LaRocca, author of On Emerson and editor of Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes
A pathbreaking set of essays on the politics of Emerson. . . . Highly recommended. -- Choice
Makes a compelling case for reassessing Emerson\u27s political thought. -- Colloquyhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1072/thumbnail.jp
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No full textMedium: Etching.Print Image Size: 12 x 9 inches.Print Edition: no edition (with 2 artist's proofs).Alternate Medium: Etching.Ink(s): black.Support: wove paper.Profile portrait of the nineteenth-century American transcendentalist and author Ralph Waldo Emerson. A first state proof [CMA 2005.015.016] depicts the author with a rougher facial outline and without a shirt collar
Emerson and environmental ethics/ Susan L. Dunston.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.This book shows the Emersonian arc in environmental ethics and nature writing extending into contemporary discussions of those topics. Dunston connects Emerson's nature literacy and natural philosophy to contemporary forms of eco-feminism, living systems theory, Native American science, Asian philosophy, and environmental activism.Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Emerson and Environmental Literacy; 2 Emerson Valuing Nature; 3 Emerson and Contemporary Environmentalism; 4 The Garden and the Wilderness; 5 Emerson and Ahimsa; Coda; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.1 online resourc
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-82
No full textRevised edition of Joy A. Palmer, ed., Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment, Routledge, 2001.Emerson once wrote: "Right is a conformity to the laws of nature so far as they are known to the human mind." Emerson is a "romantic." Keep "romance" in life, or, we might say, "love life" in its rich fullness. Humans need a deep sense of engagement with the landscape. Nature yields: Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline. Nature's function is linguistic or sacramental. "He who knows the most, he who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man." Nature is "a vast promise, and will not be rashly explained." She is "fathomless." We only touch her "outskirts.
Practical Expressions of Natural Piety: Emerson & Dewey
No full textThe author explores the ways that natural piety would be expressed if one were persuaded to adopt the naturalism of Emerson or Dewey
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