Author: John Michael Corrigan
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 082324234X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
American Metempsychosis explores the ancient concept of metempsychosis as a precursor to the idea of history. In the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, metempsychosis serves as a form of American self-knowing - the effort to reshape identity through a self's heightened awareness of its own cognitive succession.