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Emerson and the History of Rhetoric

Author : Roger Thompson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 080933612X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Emerson and the History of Rhetoric written by Roger Thompson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Ralph Waldo Emerson's fundamental contributions to American literature and culture as an essayist, philosopher, lecturer, and poet. However, despite wide agreement among literary and rhetorical scholars on the need for further study of Emerson as a rhetorical theorist, not much has been published on the subject. Emerson and the History of Rhetoric fills this gap in our knowledge, reenvisioning Emerson's work through his significant engagement with rhetorical theory throughout his career and providing a more profound understanding of Emerson's influence on American ideology. Moving beyond dominant literary critical thinking about Emerson's public speaking by discussing it in the context of rhetorical history, Thompson argues that for Emerson, rhetoric was both imaginative and nonsystematic. The book covers the influences of rhetoricians from a range of periods on Emerson's model of rhetoric, including Plato, Augustine, Edmund Burke, and Hugh Blair. Thompson analyzes Emerson's application of Plato's search for transcendental truth and democratic access to the means of persuasion; the Ciceronian rhetoric of Edmund Burke, which Emerson conceived as the perfect balance between common and aristocratic speech; and Augustine's idea of submission. Drawing on Emerson's manuscript notes, journal entries, and some of his rarely discussed essays and lectures as well as his more famous works, the author demonstrates not only Emerson's relevance to rhetorical history but also rhetorical history's relevance to Emerson and nineteenth-century American literature and culture. This book bridges the divide between literary and rhetorical studies, expanding our understanding of this iconic nineteenth-century man of letters.

Emerson and the History of Rhetoric

Author : Roger Thompson
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809336138
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Emerson and the History of Rhetoric written by Roger Thompson and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about Ralph Waldo Emerson’s fundamental contributions to American literature and culture as an essayist, philosopher, lecturer, and poet. But despite wide agreement among literary and rhetorical scholars on the need for further study of Emerson as a rhetorical theorist, little has been published on the subject. This book fills that gap, reenvisioning Emerson’s work through his significant engagement with rhetorical theory in the course of his career and providing a more profound understanding of Emerson’s influence on American ideology. Moving beyond dominant literary critical thinking, Thompson argues that for Emerson, rhetoric was both imaginative and nonsystematic. This book covers the influences of rhetoricians from a range of periods on Emerson’s model of rhetoric. Drawing on Emerson’s manuscript notes, journal entries, and some of his rarely discussed essays and lectures as well as his more famous works, the author bridges the divide between literary and rhetorical studies, expanding our understanding of this iconic nineteenth-century man of letters.

Emerson's Rhetoric of Revelation

Author : Alan D. Hodder
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Emerson's Rhetoric of Revelation written by Alan D. Hodder and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of American literature, Emerson's Nature, his little book of 1836, has remained something of an anomaly. Is it a naturalist's monograph or a metaphysician's scheme? In this provocative study of the development and discourse of Emerson's first book, Alan Hodder supersedes the characterizations of previous scholars, as well as Nature's own feints and calculated misrepresentations, in showing that its closest affiliations are actually with the Christian Bible, and in particular the Book of Revelation. Tracing the development of Nature from Emerson's earliest letters, journals, and sermons, this book documents the persisting apocalypticism in Emerson's thought and, in contrast to the received view of Emerson as a radical religious innovator, shows how in regard to questions of religious piety he remained a quite conservative religious thinker. Survival of the distinctive themes and imagery of apocalyptic vision in Emerson's essays and later writing suggests that its crucial movement was for him the double one of the destruction of the world and the creation of the new heaven and earth. Nature, Hodder argues, is the showpiece of this vision and presents for the first time the formula for Emerson's revelation that the essays of the next decade will continue to develop. Though conceived increasingly as Emerson's paradigm for poetic creation and the practical basis for his emerging doctrine of Self-reliance, this apocalyptic formula has its origins in an apocalyptic sensibility and a traditional form of piety modeled after Christ's kenosis and conditioned for him by Mary Moody Emerson, his Calvinist forebears, and the Quaker Friends. Leading his own readers through an exploration of Nature's biblical designs and revisions, close analyses of its rhetorical strategies and multivalence, and a consideration of the impact of these upon Emerson's reader, Hodder evokes a fresh reading of this elusive classic and demonstrates how it repeats and revises the revelations of Saint John through an internalization of its vision.

Emerson and the Climates of History

Author : Eduardo Cadava
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804728140
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Emerson and the Climates of History written by Eduardo Cadava and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather. Focusing on Emerson's persistent use of climatic and meteorological metaphors, the book demonstrates that Emerson's reflections on the weather are inseparable from his preoccupation with the central historical and political issues of his day. The author suggests that Emerson's writings may be read as both symptomatic and critical of the governing rhetorics through which Americans of his day thought about the most important contemporary issues, and that what has often been seen as Emerson's retreat from the arena of history into the domain of spirit is in fact an effort to re-treat or rethink the nature of history in terms of questions of representation. What distinguishes this book from the work of other critics who are reassessing Emerson's relation to history is its attempt to think through the way in which the figures of Emerson's rhetoricfigures (like frost, snow, the auroras, and nature in general) which often seem to have nothing to do with either history or politicsare themselves traversed by the conflictual histories of slavery, race, destiny, revolution, and the meaning of America. It differs, that is, in proposing a textual model for reading Emerson that measures his engagement with changing historical and political relations in terms of the way he works to revise the language he inherits. There can be no reading of Emerson, the author suggests, that does not trace the movement of his figures and tropes as they become something else, as they open onto questions of history.

Rhetoric and Kairos

Author : Phillip Sipiora
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489388
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric and Kairos written by Phillip Sipiora and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers the first comprehensive discussion of the history, theory, and pedagogical applications of kairos, a seminal and recently revised concept of classical rhetoric. Augusto Rostagni, James L. Kinneavy, Richard Leo Enos, John Poulakos, and John E. Smith are among the international list of scholars who explore the Homeric and literary origins of kairos, the technologies of time-keeping in antiquity, the role of "right-timing" in Hippocratic medicine, the improvisations of Gorgias, as well as the uses of kairos in Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, and the New Testament. Broad in its scope, the book also examines the distinctive philosophies of time reflected in Renaissance Humanism, Nineteenth-Century American Transcendentalism, Oriental art and ritual, and the application of kairos to contemporary philosophy, ethics, literary criticism, rhetorical theory, and composition pedagogy.

A Liberal Education in Late Emerson

Author : Sean Ross Meehan
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1640140239
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Liberal Education in Late Emerson written by Sean Ross Meehan and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counters the view of the late Emerson's decline by rethinking his engagement with liberal education and his intellectual relation to Whitman, William James, Charles Eliot, and Du Bois.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Lloyd Rohler
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Lloyd Rohler and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1995-07-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical analysis identifies the different rhetorical strategies and techniques that Emerson used first as a traditional New England preacher and then as he became a widely renowned public lecturer. Ten texts illustrating his different kinds of speeches on a wide array of subjects, such as prayer, manners, eloquence, the American scholar, the genuine man, and the fugitive slave law, accompany the analysis. A speech chronology and bibliography pointing to important primary and secondary materials further enrich this Great American Orators reference tool for students, scholars, and professionals in rhetoric, history, and American studies.

The Rhetoric of Saint Augustine of Hippo

Author : Richard Leo Enos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhetoric of Saint Augustine of Hippo written by Richard Leo Enos and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will remain the standard for a long time to come.

Nature

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-century Historiography

Author : Catherine Emerson
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830528
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-century Historiography written by Catherine Emerson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How reliable are La Marche's Memoires of the fifteenth-century Burgundian court? Examination of key issues proves their validity.

Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

Author : Ward Farnsworth
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 1567924670
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric written by Ward Farnsworth and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric is among the most ancient academic disciplines, and we all use it every day whether expertly or not. This book is a lively set of lessons on the subject. It is about rhetorical figures: practical ways of applying old and powerful principles--repetition and variety, suspense and relief, concealment and surprise, the creation of expectations and then the satisfaction or frustration of them--to the composition of a simple sentence or a complete paragraph. --from publisher description.

Rhetoric: Discovery and Change

Author : Richard Emerson Young
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780155768956
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric: Discovery and Change written by Richard Emerson Young and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1970 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Less Legible Meanings

Author : Pamela J. Schirmeister
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780124
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Less Legible Meanings written by Pamela J. Schirmeister and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining both why and how Emerson evades the ancient quarrel between literature and philosophy, this book entirely rethinks the nature of Emerson's radical individualism and its relation to the possibility of an ethics and a politics. The author argues that the quarrel between literature and philosophy never took place in America, and that instead traditional philosophical work staged itself here as a form of literary praxis and cultural therapeutics. Epitomized in the work of Emerson, this praxis takes shape explicitly in Emerson's understanding of democracy and occurs as an exchange within the act of reading. This is the exchange that Emerson so eloquently calls for in "The American Scholar" under the name of "letters." Emerson's project for American letters is the creation of a new national identity; as Less Legible Meanings makes clear, we have not yet understood the full range of implications that this project entails. After situating American letters in relation to German and British Romanticism and the features of American culture that augmented and altered their reception in the United States, the book goes on to explore the type of reading that Emersonian rhetoric engenders. Both persuasive and tropological, this rhetoric elicits from the reader something similar to psychoanalytic transference. Its goal is to lead the reader to a point at which representational logic breaks down so that a new subject can take shape. The purpose of such rhetoric, however, extends well beyond personal self-creation, because the construction of the subject emerges as the very possibility of the passage from the private sphere to the public one. In this passage, our entire notion of liberal individualism must be rethought, and with it, the pragmatic question of Emersonian ethics and politics. A revisionary study of some of Emerson's central essays, Less Legible Meanings also invites the reader to reconsider the nature of Emerson's influence on contemporary American culture and to discover new ways in which we might continue to understand his work. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book makes equal use of the history of philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and cultural history.

Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor

Author : David LaRocca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144117561X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor written by David LaRocca and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally. David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, English Traits (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race. In the first book-length study of English Traits in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.

Property And Persuasion

Author : Carol M Rose
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000308359
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Property And Persuasion written by Carol M Rose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With socialism largely discredited in recent years, the moral and legal status of private property has become an increasingly important area for discussion in contemporary political and social thought. Offering a contribution to legal theory, and to political and social philosophy, this work examines the two currently dominant traditions - those of neo-conservative utilitarianism and liberal communitarianism - emphasizing the strengths of both approaches and laying the groundwork for a theory to bridge the gap between them.

From Emerson to King

Author : Anita Haya Patterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195109155
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book From Emerson to King written by Anita Haya Patterson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces a provocative line from Emerson's work on race, reform, and identity to work by three influential African- American thinkers--W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Cornel West--each of whom offers subtle engagement with both the tradition of written protest and the critique of liberalism Emerson shaped. Emerson has been cast in recent debate as either an antinomian or an ideologue--as either subversive of institutional controls or indebted to capitalism. Here, Patterson contributes a more nuanced view, probing Emerson's record and its cultural and historical matrix to document a fundamental rhetoric of contradiction--a strategic aligning of opposed political concepts--that enabled him to both affirm and critique elements of the liberal democratic model. Drawing richly on topics in political philosophy, law, religion, and cultural history, Patterson examines the nature and implications of Emerson's contradictory rhetoric in parts I and II. In part III she considers Emerson's legacy from the perspective of African-American intellectual history, identifying fresh continuities and crucial discontinuities between the canonical strain of protest writing Emerson helped establish and African-American literary and philosophical traditions.

Plato

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545387320
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Plato written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 - April 27, 1882) 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 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." Emerson wrote most of his important essays as lectures first and then revised them for print. His first two collections of essays, Essays: First Series (1841) and Essays: Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include the well-known essays "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet" and "Experience." Together with "Nature," these essays made the decade from the mid-1830s to the mid-1840s Emerson's most fertile period. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects, never espousing fixed philosophical tenets, but developing certain ideas such as individuality, freedom, the ability for humankind to realize almost anything, and the relationship between the soul and the surrounding world. Emerson's "nature" was more philosophical than naturalistic: "Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul." Emerson is one of several figures who "took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the world." He remains among the linchpins of the American romantic movement, and his work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man." Emerson is also well known as a mentor and friend of Henry David Thoreau, a fellow transcendentalist. Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, a son of Ruth Haskins and the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister. He was named after his mother's brother Ralph and his father's great-grandmother Rebecca Waldo. Ralph Waldo was the second of five sons who survived into adulthood; the others were William, Edward, Robert Bulkeley, and Charles. Three other children-Phebe, John Clarke, and Mary Caroline-died in childhood. Emerson was entirely of English ancestry, and his family had been in New England since the early colonial period.