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Lost Experience : Statuts d’Emerson dans la série Lost
TV Series, 2018 Lost is a polysemic show which mobilizes, for that purpose, the trope of homonymy. Many characters go by the name of great historical figures. This process questions the theme of utopia and ideal society.
Guillaume Dulong
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A Tightrope over an Abyss: Humanity and the Lords of Life [PDF]
, 2016 The American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson is a precursor to the thought of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche\u27s writings have often admitted to the profound influence Emerson had on the latter\u27s own philosophy.
Urban, Timothy Francis
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Change and the Poetics of Plenitude in Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery [PDF]
, 2015 The essay attends to a paradox found in some crucial poetic efforts by Wallace Stevens and John Ashbery. In some of their most important poetic works Stevens and Ashbery take on the task of positioning the poem toward the plurality of reality, the ...
Bartczak, Kacper
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“Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in post-9/11 America,” [PDF]
, 2017 American Muslims increasingly negotiate their relation to a government that is suspicious of Islam, yet which is legally obligated to recognize them as rights-bearing citizens.
Gould, Rebecca
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Eliot, Emerson, and transpacific modernism [PDF]
, 2018 First author draftAccepted ...
Patterson, Anita
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Jamesian Liberalism and the Self [PDF]
, 2019 Despite he did not write any full-fledge and comprehensive treatise of the kind Thomas Jefferson, Walter Lippman, or John Rawls did, William James is among the great American liberal philosophers.
MARCHETTI, SARIN
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European Journal of American Studies, 2020 The essay explores multiple senses of “true,” arguing that truth not only has a performative sense, but that certain performances can themselves be true as when a friend is a true friend.
John T. Lysaker
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, 2012 This paper focuses on Ralph Waldo Emerson\u27s influence on prominent American writers. Specifically, the paper examines themes that Emerson emphasizes in Self-Reliance and Nature and how those themes are central to selected works by Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Bly, Lauren M.
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On Emerson’s Dream of Eating the World
Linguaculture, 2018 Ralph Waldo Emerson recorded in his journal a dream that he “floated at will in the great Ether,” and “saw this world floating also not far off, but diminished to the size of an apple.” Urged by an angel who took it in his hand and brought it to him to ...
Dana Bădulescu
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Edward Bliss Emerson: The Blazing Star of a Complex Constellation [PDF]
, 2014 Edward Bliss Emerson, a younger brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson and a promising scholar in his own right, traveled to the West Indies at the age of 26 hoping to alleviate his pulmonary afflictions.
Rabionet, Silvia E
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