Author : John Carlos Rowe
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231058950
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis At Emerson's Tomb by : John Carlos Rowe
Download or read book At Emerson's Tomb written by John Carlos Rowe and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.