Essays about: "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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1. Cui Bono? — To Whom Is It a Benefit? : Edgar Allan Poe’s Critique of Emerson’s Transcendentalism
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This essay is a contribution to literary history that explores Edgar Allan Poe’s criticism of the transcendentalist movement and its key figure Ralph Waldo Emerson through an analysis of the short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Never Bet the Devil Your Head.” By using genre criticism to define aspects of the Gothic genre, Poe’s criticism through Gothic tropes is studied together with an intertextual reading of the short stories and historical literary objects such as letters, magazines and literary reviews that details his views on transcendentalism. READ MORE
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2. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : In conceptualizing Moby-Dick; or, the whale, Herman Melville was both drawn and opposed to the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Through an analysis of the main characters in MobyDick and Emerson’s writing, it becomes evident that Transcendentalism is embodied in the characterization of the novel’s main characters. READ MORE
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3. Den naturliga människan - en undersökning av naturens roll för det mänskliga känslolivet, sett genom Henry David Thoreaus Walden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how the American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) writes about nature, and natures role for the human emotions. The study takes basis in one of the writer’s most famous works – Walden; or, Life in the woods, from 1854, which he wrote after he had been living in a small cottage in the woods around walden pond for over 2 years. READ MORE
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4. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass : A Poetic Paradox in Search of American Individualism
University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språkAbstract : The influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass is well known; equally well known are the traces of the Transcendentalist philosophy concerning nature. But Whitman expands upon both these influences as he developed his own individualism based on solidarity rather than independence. READ MORE
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5. Idealism and Guilt in the Forest : Cooper, Emerson and the American Wilderness Myth
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans has had a remarkable impact on American culture and modern critics have often viewed it as a myth of America itself. Cooper’s highly romanticized narrative has partly been seen as the less-than-historical “wish-fulfillment” (D.H. READ MORE
