001477551 000__ 05203nam\a22010335i\4500 001477551 001__ 1477551 001477551 003__ DE-B1597 001477551 005__ 20231026034815.0 001477551 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477551 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477551 008__ 230103t20122012nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477551 020__ $$a9780823242375 001477551 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823242375$$2doi 001477551 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555084 001477551 035__ $$a(OCoLC)808367423 001477551 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477551 0410_ $$aeng 001477551 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477551 050_4 $$aPS217.S44$$bC67 2012eb 001477551 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001477551 08204 $$a810.9/353$$223 001477551 1001_ $$aCorrigan, John Michael, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477551 24510 $$aAmerican Metempsychosis :$$bEmerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry /$$cJohn Michael Corrigan. 001477551 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2012] 001477551 264_4 $$c©2012 001477551 300__ $$a1 online resource (254 p.) 001477551 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477551 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477551 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477551 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477551 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1. The Metempsychotic Mind -- $$t2. The Double Consciousness -- $$t3. Reading the Metempsychotic Text -- $$t4. Writing the Metempsychotic Text -- $$t5. The New Poetry -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477551 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477551 520__ $$aThe "transmigration of souls is no fable. I would it were, but men and women are only half human." With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson confronts a dilemma that illuminates the formation of American individualism: to evolve and become fully human requires a heightened engagement with history. Americans, Emerson argues, must realize history's chronology in themselves-because their own minds and bodies are its evolving record. Whereas scholarship has tended to minimize the mystical underpinnings of Emerson's notion of the self, his depictions of "the metempsychosis of nature" reveal deep roots in mystical traditions from Hinduism and Buddhism to Platonism and Christian esotericism. In essay after essay, Emerson uses metempsychosis as an open-ended template to understand human development.In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman transforms Emerson's conception of metempsychotic selfhood into an expressly poetic event. His vision of transmigration viscerally celebrates the poet's ability to assume and live in other bodies; his American poet seeks to incorporate the entire nation into his own person so that he can speak for every man and woman. 001477551 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477551 546__ $$aIn English. 001477551 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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