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The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin

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, ...

Modest Musorgsky and Boris Godunov: Myths, Realities, ...

Caryl Emerson

Caryl Emerson and Robert Oldani take a comprehensive look at the most famous Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov.
The Life of Musorgsky

The Life of Musorgsky

Caryl Emerson

Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist.
A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This 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

Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

Alexander Pushkin

James 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

Emerson

Lawrence BUELL

Social 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 ...

Caryl Phillips' Cambridge - the Ambiguity of a Slave's ...

Marylise Thill

In this essay, we will mainly focus on one author that belongs to this wave, namely Caryl Phillips.
Caryl Phillips

Caryl Phillips

Dr. Helen Thomas

This study presents a critical examination of Caryl Phillips' fictional and non-ficional explorations of the 'black diaspora'.
Final Passage

Final Passage

Caryl Phillips

Caryl 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

The Final Passage

Caryl Phillips

Caryl 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

Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell

This 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

The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These 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

Boris Godunov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme

Caryl Emerson

The 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 ...

Singular Texts/plural Authors: Perspectives on Collaborative ...

Lisa S. Ede

Ed. 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

The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

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Stephen 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

Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Laurie Lanzen Harris

The 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

The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In 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 Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A 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

The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson 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

Higher Ground

Caryl Phillips

In 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

The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style

Caryl Flinn

This 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

Strains of Utopia: Gender, Nostalgia, and Hollywood Film Music

Caryl Flinn

Exploring 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

Joe Orton: A Casebook

Francesca Coppa

Geraldine 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

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction 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

The Emerson Society Quarterly

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Such 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

On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

Branka Arsić

In 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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