Thursday, February 21, 2013
What I blogged for...
The title for this blog derives from a recent book of criticism on Emerson and American Studies by Randell Fuller entitled Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists (2007, Oxford University Press). I am writing it with the hope that I can work out some of my ideas about Emerson and see if I can't develop a way of conceptualizing Emerson that is at least a tiny fraction as enlivening as I believe his works are. It is also in correspondence with an independent study that I am doing for my Master's Thesis at Hunter College at the City University of New York.
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I am not sure what all you are saying but Emerson seems to be a lightening rod. My questions: what did he want? Was he challenging people or just expressing viewpoints? Did he invite constructive criticism of his views? How much are his ideas other people's ideas poured through his strainer? What does Emerson have to offer the average person in society today that is so under siege from seemingly everything.
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