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- 61: View of Individual and Society by Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Mark Twain
- ... Hawthorne with a very dismal outlook to Thoreau with a brighter outlook to Twain with an unusual outlook somewhere in the middle of the previous two. Thus, the literary transition is made from Rationalism to Transcendentalism to Realism. It is hard to say that one author is completely right or wrong, for each person wrote what made sense in his own mind and his own time. Mark Twain himself said, To ...
- 62: Herman Melville: An Anti- Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... a picture of a man very similar to himself. A man sick of working, finally declines rapidly to reach his demise. However, in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' reveals the author's disgust with Emersonian transcendentalism through the self-delusions of the protagonist. Cereno personifies nature, seeing it as a benevolent force that acts deliberately for the good of humanity. Melville makes it apparent that such idealism offers no practical use ...
- 63: Herman Melville
- ... a picture of a man very similar to himself. A man sick of working, finally declines rapidly to reach his demise. However, in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' reveals the author's disgust with Emersonian transcendentalism through the self-delusions of the protagonist. Cereno personifies nature, seeing it as a benevolent force that acts deliberately for the good of humanity. Melville makes it apparent that such idealism offers no practical use ...
- 64: Herman Melville: An Anti-Transcendentalist Or Not
- ... a picture of a man very similar to himself. A man sick of working, finally declines rapidly to reach his demise. However, in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' reveals the author's disgust with Emersonian transcendentalism through the self-delusions of the protagonist. Cereno personifies nature, seeing it as a benevolent force that acts deliberately for the good of humanity. Melville makes it apparent that such idealism offers no practical use ...
- 65: American Studies
- ... be found in anyone American, and its expressed by those who write the high literature gene, such as Whitman, Twain... 4. The American mind is influenced by movements that run through our past Pragmatition, Transcendentalism, and Liberation 5. Popular culture is legit image to study, but the whole of American is best revealed in high literature. (Gene Wise) Again, looking at the other side of the situation, there is Linda ...
- 66: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... father was a very religious man who practiced a Protestant sect that closely followed the tenets of New England Puritanism, but she was never able to practice his faith with dedication. She was drawn to transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was one of the leaders of this movement in the belief in the essential unity of creation, the goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and reason ...
- 67: Emily Dickinson: Life and Her Works
- ... father was a very religious man who practiced a Protestant sect that closely followed the tenets of New England Puritanism, but she was never able to practice his faith with dedication. She was drawn to transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who was one of the leaders of this movement in the belief in the essential unity of creation, the goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and reason ...
- 68: Emily Dickinson
- ... doesn't keep. In this poem Emily shows her feelings towards formalized schooling. Being a product of reputable college one would think that she would be in favor of this. But as her beliefs in transcendentalism grew so did her belief in individuality. Emily also went against the Church which was an extreme rarity of the time. Similar to many other that shared her beliefs she too did not think that ...
- 69: Herman Melville: His Life and Works
- ... a picture of a man very similar to himself. A man sick of working, finally declines rapidly to reach his demise. However, in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno' reveals the author's disgust with Emersonian transcendentalism through the self-delusions of the protagonist. Cereno personifies nature, seeing it as a benevolent force that acts deliberately for the good of humanity. Melville makes it apparent that such idealism offers no practical use ...
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