American prose masters Cooper--Hawthorne--Emerson--Poe--Lowell--Henry James / by Brownell, W. C. 1851-1928

The poetics of transition : Emerson, pragmatism, & American literary modernism / by Levin, Jonathan, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Life, transition, the energizing spirit -- Divine overflowings: Emerson's pragmatic idealism -- William James and the metaphorics of transition -- The aesthetics of pragmatism -- Santayana, Dewey, and the politics of transition -- Henry James and the drama of transition -- Gertrude Stein and the movement of words -- Wallace Stevens and the pragmatist imagination.…”

James, Melville, Emerson, Berryman /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The 'strained and aching wonder' of American Shakespeare; Chapter 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson; Chapter 2 Herman Melville; Chapter 3 Henry James; Chapter 4 John Berryman; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.…”
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Visions of global America and the future of critical reading / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.…”

Visions of global America and the future of critical reading / by O'Hara, Daniel T., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Badiou's truth and the office of the critic : neither gods nor monsters -- Figures of the void : on the subject of truth and the fundamentalist imagination -- "The cry of its occasion" : the subject of truth, or the terror in global terrorism -- Global America and the logics of vision -- America, the symptom : on the post-9/11 allegory in American studies -- Our worldly apocalypse : literature and everyday life -- "Monstrous levity" : between realism and vision in Henry James -- Toward a global democracy : James Baldwin and the stoic vision of amor fati -- Bringing out the terror : James Purdy and the culture of vision.…”
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A power to translate the world : new essays on Emerson and international culture /

Table of Contents: “…Evans; 11 The "Whole" Conduct of Life: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James / Daniel Rosenberg Nutters -- III. Emerson and the Far East; 12 Emerson and Japan: Finding a Way of Cultural Criticism / Naoko Saito; 13 Emerson and China / Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey; 14 Confucius and Emerson on the Virtue of Self-Reliance / Mathew A. …”
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The American canon : literary genius from Emerson to Pynchon / by Bloom, Harold

Table of Contents: “…Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Herman Melville (1819-1891) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T.S. …”