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Author Schirmeister, Pamela, 1958-

Title Less legible meanings : between poetry and philosophy in the work of Emerson / Pamela Schirmeister
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999

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Description xii, 222 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction: The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy -- 1. We Scholars. The Question of Letters. By Way of Jena and Carlyle. Receptivity -- 2. From Philosophy to Rhetoric. Letting Go. Reading. Alienated Majesties: Beyond Representation -- 3. Reading Transference. From Repetition to Remembering. From Remembering to Repetition: Transference as Performativity. The Subject in the Real: "Whim" -- 4. Settling Accounts: "Experience" What Counts? And Who? The Atopical Place of Community. "Where Do We Find Ourselves?" -- 5. From Exemplarity to Representativeness. The Evasions of Representativeness. Two Exemplary Detours: The Example, and the Scarlet Letter. Un-writing the Community -- 6. Measures of Silence
Summary "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-217) and index
Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Philosophy, American -- 19th century.
Philosophy in literature.
LC no. 99039450
ISBN 0804730156 alkaline paper