American Metempsychosis: Emerson, Whitman, and the New Poetry by John Michael Corrigan
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Overview: "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.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism
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