American Metempsychosis : Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry / John Michael Corrigan.
Corrigan, John Michael, author.
2012
PS217.S44 C67 2012eb
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Title American Metempsychosis : Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry / John Michael Corrigan.
Author Corrigan, John Michael, author.
ISBN 9780823242375
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823242375
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (254 p.)
Item Number 10.1515/9780823242375 doi
Call Number PS217.S44 C67 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9/353
Summary The "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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Metempsychotic Mind
2. The Double Consciousness
3. Reading the Metempsychotic Text
4. Writing the Metempsychotic Text
5. The New Poetry
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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