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Emerson and the Art of the Diary.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1988Copyright date: ©1988Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195363890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Emerson and the Art of the DiaryDDC classification:
  • 818.303
LOC classification:
  • PS1631.R67 1988
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- I. Prolegomena -- II. From Commonplace Book to Journal -- Authority and Rebellion -- Strayings and Temptations -- A Conscious Beginning -- III. The Form of the Mature Journal -- Introduction -- Interlude: A Practical Note -- The Journal vs. the Essays -- Is the Journal Really a Work of Art? (Part 1) -- The Journal as Artifact -- Emerson and his Diaristic Circle -- The Journal and the Aphorism Book -- Is the Journal Really a Work of Art? (Part 2) -- Emerson the Gregarious Revolutionary, or, A Consideration of Two Artistic Forms -- The Journal and the Quotation Book -- IV. The Loss of Form -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: This, the first extended literary description and analysis of Emerson's journals, argues that they, and not his essays, are Emerson's masterpiece, constituting one of the greatest commentaries on nineteenth-century America by one of our most acute formal intelligences. First developing the critical methodology needed to examine the journal form, Rosenwald then discusses how Emerson the diarist found his form and where it stands in relation to other diaristic writing.
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Intro -- Contents -- I. Prolegomena -- II. From Commonplace Book to Journal -- Authority and Rebellion -- Strayings and Temptations -- A Conscious Beginning -- III. The Form of the Mature Journal -- Introduction -- Interlude: A Practical Note -- The Journal vs. the Essays -- Is the Journal Really a Work of Art? (Part 1) -- The Journal as Artifact -- Emerson and his Diaristic Circle -- The Journal and the Aphorism Book -- Is the Journal Really a Work of Art? (Part 2) -- Emerson the Gregarious Revolutionary, or, A Consideration of Two Artistic Forms -- The Journal and the Quotation Book -- IV. The Loss of Form -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

This, the first extended literary description and analysis of Emerson's journals, argues that they, and not his essays, are Emerson's masterpiece, constituting one of the greatest commentaries on nineteenth-century America by one of our most acute formal intelligences. First developing the critical methodology needed to examine the journal form, Rosenwald then discusses how Emerson the diarist found his form and where it stands in relation to other diaristic writing.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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