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The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin
Caryl Emerson"Caryl Emerson has given us a major book on a major phenomenon, as readable as it is important, one that moves authoritatively from biography through literary and philosophical analysis to the cultural frameworks in which those matters take ...
Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, ...
Caryl EmersonCaryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.
A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis meditation collection will provide an opportunity to celebrate and re-evaluate Emerson's contribution to America's spiritual history.
Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works
Alexander PushkinJames E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright.
Emerson
Lawrence BUELLSocial Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition Emerson lived during a time of intense national growing pains. U.S. territory expanded, its population grew, and governmental institutions changed more wrenchingly during his working life ...
Caryl Phillips' Cambridge - the Ambiguity of a Slave's ...
Marylise ThillIn this essay, we will mainly focus on one author that belongs to this wave, namely Caryl Phillips.
Caryl Phillips
Dr. Helen ThomasThis study presents a critical examination of Caryl Phillips' fictional and non-ficional explorations of the 'black diaspora'.
Final Passage
Caryl PhillipsCaryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s.
The Final Passage
Caryl PhillipsCaryl Phillips's first novel tells the story of Leila, a nineteen-year-old woman living on a small Caribbean island in the 1950s.
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes
Stanley CavellThis book is Stanley Cavell_s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known.
The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
Ralph Waldo EmersonThese final volumes contain some of Emerson's most timelessly relevant work and are sure to engage and inform any reader interested in discovering one of our country's greatest intellectuals.
Boris Godunov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme
Caryl EmersonThe tale of Boris Godunov—tsar, usurper, tsarecide—dating from the early seventeenth-century Time of Troubles, inspired three major nineteenth-century Russian cultural expressions: in history by Nikolai Karamzin, in drama by Alexander ...
Singular Texts/plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative ...
Lisa S. EdeEd. Lynn Beene and Peter White. New York: Oxford, 1988. Elsasser, Nan, and Vera P. John-Steiner. "An Interactionist Approach to Advancing Literacy." Harvard Educational Review 47 (1977): 355-59. Emerson, Caryl. "The Outer Word and ...
The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform
PreviewStephen L. Esquith's "Power, Poise, and Place: Toward an Emersonian Theory of Democratic Citizenship" explores Emerson's legacy in relation to a resurgence of interest in citizenship among political theorists. By drawing on recent ...
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism
Laurie Lanzen HarrisThe collected letters of Emerson and Thoreau. Spiller, Robert E. "The Four Faces of Emerson." In Four Makers of the American Mind: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, A Bicentennial Tribute, edited by Thomas Edward Crawley, pp.
The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
PreviewIn 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
Ralph Waldo EmersonA new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe occasional "Address on Education," which Emerson delivered between these two series, may be seen as a link between them. Of the twenty-three lectures in this volume, only three have been previously published.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oliver Wendell HolmesEmerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
Higher Ground
Caryl PhillipsIn Higher Ground, Caryl Phillips presents three characters separated by time and distance but united by the profound sympathy he has for their humanity.
The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style
Caryl FlinnThis is a remarkably innovative, transformative, and important work."—Patrice Petro, author of Aftershocks of the New: Feminism & Film History "Using the musical soundtrack as her 'Auftakt,' Caryl Flinn revisits melodrama and melancholia, ...
Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music
Caryl FlinnExploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films tended to link music to the sense of an idealized, lost past.
Joe Orton: A Casebook
Francesca CoppaGeraldine in Joe Orton's What the Butler Saw Through our father, we love our queen and our God. — Give in Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine A number of interesting resonances exist between the work of Joe Orton and that of Caryl Churchill, one ...
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonIntroduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph ...
The Emerson Society Quarterly
More editionsSuch private delight supports Paul Hourihan's thesis that Emerson thought the roles of novel-reader and sage incompatible and chose to hide the one in favor of cultivating the public image of the other. Such ambivalence in his appreciation of ...
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson
Branka ArsićIn his essay âeoeCompensation,âe Emerson makes a surprising claim: âeoeEvery soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its ...
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