LaRocca, David.

A Power to Translate the World : New Essays on Emerson and International Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (368 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction | Thinking Through International Influence | Davis LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso -- Part 1 | Emerson Beyond Borders In His Time -- 1 | The Anti-Slave from Emerson to Obama | Donald E. Pease -- 2 | Emerson, the Indian Brahmo Samaj, and the American Reception of Gandhi | David M. Robinson -- 3 | Transcendentalist Triangulations: The American Goethe and His Female Disciples | Monika M. Elbert -- 4 | Emerson, Great Britain, and the International Struggle for the Rights of the Workingman | Len Gougeon -- 5 | An "Extempore Adventurer" in Italy: Emerson as International Tourist, 1832-1833 | Robert D. Habich -- Part 2 | Emerson and Global Modernity -- 6 | "Eternal Allusion": Maeterlinck's Readings of Emerson's Somatic Semiotics | David LaRocca -- 7 | Emerson in Germany, 1850-1933: Appreciation and Appropriation | Herwig Friedl -- 8 | Transcendental Modernism: Vicente Huidobro's Emersonian Poetics | Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso -- 9 | Rilke and Emerson: The Case against Influence as Such | Richard Deming -- 10 | Emerson -- or, the Critic-The Arnoldian Ideal | K. L. Evans -- 11 "The Whole Conduct of Life": Emerson and Henry James | Daniel Rosenberg Nutters -- Part Three | Emerson and the Far East -- 12 | Emerson and Japan: Finding a Way of Cultural Criticism | Naoko Saito -- 13 | Emerson and China | Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey -- 14 | Confucious and Emerson on the Virtue of Self-Relience | Mathew A. Foust -- Part 4 | Emerson and the Near East -- 15 | Emerson and Some Jewish Questions | Kenneth S. Sacks -- 16 | Emerson and Jewish Readers | Davis Mikics -- 17 | Middle Eastern-American Literature: A Contemporary Turn in Emerson Studies | Roger Sedarat -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Index.

The impact of global thinkers on Emerson; Emerson's impact on global thought.

9781611688306


Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.


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