Beyond Deconstruction
America, Style and the Romantic Synthesis in Emerson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895721 |
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| Authors | Jim McNeely (corresponding author), J Trevor McNeely |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-82 |
| Publication date | 1991-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-022-01-05 |
| OpenAlex | W2044846636 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
For much of this century Emerson has not fared well at the hands of critics. Philosophical optimism without apparent ambiguity is not an intellectual stance that is congenial either to the modernist or postmodernist tempers. For more than fifty years, therefore, Emerson has faced a barrage of revisionist criticism which has been determined, at the very least, to disturb his complacency, if unable quite to dislodge the idol from the pedestal on which his own century placed it. In the academy Emerson rests at present in a kind of limbo—the Transcendentalist movement of which he is the personification remains the defining philosophy of America, while our age affects a sophistication to which Transcendentalism's romantic certainties have become an embarrassment
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Criticism · Deconstruction (building · Embarrassment · Epistemology · Literature · Optimism · Romance · Sophistication · Style (visual arts · Indian History and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Social Psychology · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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