Mythic archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson
Subtitle: a Blakean reading
By: Richard R. O'Keefe.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Aesthetics.; Archetype (Psychology) in literature.; Authorship -- Psychological aspects.; Romanticism -- United States.; Myth in literature.
Description: Mythic Archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson explores the American writer's essays as mythic prose poems, suggesting a new approach to the practical criticism of Emerson's works. Richard O'Keefe uses the archetypal model - a critical tool seldom employed on American Romantics, yet frequently applied in the study of British Romantic poets such as William Blake - to contemporize methods of examining Emersonian texts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-215) and index.