The American Scholar

The American Scholar
Title The American Scholar PDF eBook
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher
Pages 142
Release 1901
Genre Learning and scholarship
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The American Scholar (1838) by

The American Scholar (1838) by
Title The American Scholar (1838) by PDF eBook
Author Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Pages 30
Release 2016-11-12
Genre
ISBN 9781540369970

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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."

Understanding Emerson

Understanding Emerson
Title Understanding Emerson PDF eBook
Author Kenneth Sacks
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 213
Release 2003-03-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0691099820

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Address (Classic Reprint)

Address (Classic Reprint)
Title Address (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook
Author Louisville University Medica Department
Publisher
Pages 20
Release 2018-10-03
Genre Self-Help
ISBN 9781396570124

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Hearing Homer's Song

Hearing Homer's Song
Title Hearing Homer's Song PDF eBook
Author Robert Kanigel
Publisher Knopf
Pages 337
Release 2021-04-27
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0525520945

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From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this literary detective story, Robert Kanigel gives us a long overdue portrait of an Oakland druggist's son who became known as the "Darwin of Homeric studies." So thoroughly did Milman Parry change our thinking about the origins of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey that scholars today refer to a "before" Parry and an "after." Kanigel describes the "before," when centuries of readers, all the way up until Parry's trailblazing work in the 1930's, assumed that the Homeric epics were "written" texts, the way we think of most literature; and the "after" that we now live in, where we take it for granted that they are the result of a long and winding oral tradition. Parry made it his life's work to develop and prove this revolutionary theory, and Kanigel brilliantly tells his remarkable story--cut short by Parry's mysterious death by gunshot wound at the age of thirty-three. From UC Berkeley to the Sorbonne to Harvard to Yugoslavia--where he traveled to prove his idea definitively by studying its traditional singers of heroic poetry--we follow Parry on his idiosyncratic journey, observing just how his early notions blossomed into a full-fledged theory. Kanigel gives us an intimate portrait of Parry's marriage to Marian Thanhouser and their struggles as young parents in Paris, and explores the mystery surrounding Parry's tragic death at the Palms Hotel in Los Angeles. Tracing Parry's legacy to the modern day, Kanigel explores how what began as a way to understand the Homeric epics became the new field of "oral theory," which today illuminates everything from Beowulf to jazz improvisation, from the Old Testament to hip-hop.

Anna In-Between

Anna In-Between
Title Anna In-Between PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Nunez
Publisher Akashic Books
Pages 256
Release 2009-09-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1936070189

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“Deftly explores family strife and immigrant identity . . . expressive prose and convincing characters that immediately hook the reader.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Winner of the PEN Oakland Award for Literary Excellence Long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award When Anna takes a break from her successful publishing career in the US and visits the Caribbean island home of her birth, she is upset to discover that her mother, Beatrice, has breast cancer. The family is upper class, and treatment in America may offer her a chance of survival. But, believing that she would never receive quality care there as a black woman, she rejects all efforts to persuade her as the clock keeps ticking on her illness . . . From the American Book Award–winning author of Prospero’s Daughter, this is a “moving exploration of immigrant identity [with] a protagonist caught between race, class, and a mother’s love” (Ms. Magazine). “A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer, and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant.” —The New York Times Book Review “Nunez has created a moving and insightful character study while delving into the complexities of identity politics. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal “An intimate portrait of the unknowable secrets and indelible ties that bind husbands and wives, mothers and daughters.” —Booklist “Probing and lyrical . . . one of Nunez’s best yet.” —Edwidge Danticat

A Literary Education

A Literary Education
Title A Literary Education PDF eBook
Author Joseph Epstein
Publisher Axios Press
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9781604190786

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A respected essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Atlantic discusses the pleasure, often forgotten in the modern day, of reading something for no purpose whatsoever in his latest collection of writings.