Essays about: "Transcendentalism"

Found 4 essays containing the word Transcendentalism.

  1. 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 humaniora

    Author : Albin Lavikkala; [2023]
    Keywords : Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transcendentalism; Genre Studies; Gothic Romanticism; Gothic; Criticism;

    Abstract : 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

  3. 2. Criticism of Emerson's Transcendentalism in Melville's Moby-Dick

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Alexander Myrén; [2019]
    Keywords : Transcendentalism; Melville; Emerson; Ahab; Ishmael;

    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

  4. 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 lärdomshistoria

    Author : Anna Olsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Henry David Thoreau; Nature; Emotions; Walden; American nature writing; Transcendentalism Henry David Thoreau; Natur; Känslor; Amerikansk naturskildring; Transcendentalism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : 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

  5. 4. Thoreau as a Mirror for Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild

    University essay from Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : José Joaquín Sánchez Vera; [2013]
    Keywords : Jon Krakauer Henry D.Thoreau Transcendentalism Into the Wild nonfiction biography McCandless economy liberalism nature wilderness fiction transcendentalism romanticism;

    Abstract : Abstract To tell the nonfiction biography of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild Jon Krakauer uses a plethora of references to Henry D. Thoreau. In this thesis I study how Krakauer uses Thoreau while balancing on the fine line that differentiates the historian from the storyteller. READ MORE