Author: Kenneth SacksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691099820
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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The American Scholar
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learning and scholarship
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Understanding Emerson
Author: Kenneth SacksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691099820
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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The American Scholar (1838) by
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540369970
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882), known professionally as Waldo Emerson, was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of transcendentalism in his 1836 essay "Nature." Following this groundbreaking work, he gave a speech entitled "The American Scholar" in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "intellectual Declaration of Independence."
God's Jury
Author: Cullen MurphyPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618091564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A narrative history of the Inquisition, and an examination of the influence it exerted on contemporary society, by the author of ARE WE ROME?
The Best American Essays 2014
Author: Robert AtwanPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544309901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Presents an anthology of the best literary essays published in 2014, selected from American periodicals.
The American Scholar Reader
Author: Hiram Collins HaydnPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412849020
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The American Scholar Reader
Author: Dwight WaldoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351486004
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 543
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To celebrate The American Scholar's thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country. The editors give a picture of the changing intellectual climate and emphasis from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. The collection illustrates the unusually wide range and diversity of the regular subject matter of The American Scholar. This work is once again brought to public attention a half century later, and this edition includes a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz.Haydn and Saunders chose essays that were of supreme quality; those included were among the best of several hundred published. They focused on a diversity of subject matter as well as a selection representative of the different interests stressed in the magazine's history. These pieces reflect the prevailing intellectual and cultural currents of fifty years earlier. The American Scholar Reader then, as now, focuses on themes of economics, religion, psychology, social and cultural matters, ecology, and the importance of conservation.Some of the major contributors and essays herein included are: 'The Germans: Unhappy Philosophers in Politics,' Reinhold Niebuhr; 'The Challenge of Our Times,' Harold J. Laski; 'The Problem of the Liberal Arts College,' John Dewey; 'The Retort Circumstantial,' Jacques Barzun; 'Freud, Religion, and Science,' David Riesman; 'Three American Philosophers,' George Santayana; 'Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature,' Edmund Wilson; 'The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt,' Richard Hofstadter; 'The Present Human Condition,' Erich Fromm; 'Our Documentary Culture,' Margaret Mead; and 'Equality America's Deferred Commitment,' C. Vann Woodward.
The American Scholar
Author: Ralph Waldo EmersonPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146561317X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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I greet you on the re-commencement of our literary year. Our anniversary is one of hope, and, perhaps, not enough of labor. We do not meet for games of strength or skill, for the recitation of histories, tragedies, and odes, like the ancient Greeks; for parliaments of love and poesy, like the Troubadours; nor for the advancement of science, like our cotemporaries in the British and European capitals. Thus far, our holiday has been simply a friendly sign of the survival of the love of letters amongst a people too busy to give to letters any more. As such, it is precious as the sign of an indestructible instinct. Perhaps the time is already come, when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill. Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce, shall one day be the pole-star for a thousand years?
Confessions of an American Scholar
Author: Simon O'ToolePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816605858
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Confessions of an American Scholar was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Professor O'Toole, a well-known American literary scholar (Simon O'Toole is a pseudonym), gives us a candid, amusing, and, on the whole, frightening look at what really goes on in academic life. He has taught at black and white colleges, private and public colleges, Ivy Leagues and brick colleges; and over the years he has found himself transformed from a good teacher and no scholar into a prolific scholar and a tired teacher. Along the way he fought Joe McCarthy and told his students to burn their draft cards. At the conclusion of his tale he makes some serious proposals for a solution to what he calls the mess of American education. At the core of his suggestions is the opinion that America needs less education instead of more, an idea that seems certain to evoke cries of treason from many of his academic brethren.
The Duty of the American Scholar to Politics and the Times
Author: George William CurtisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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