Title: Mythic archetypes in Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Subjects: Aesthetics, Archetype (Psychology) in literature, Authorship, Criticism and interpretation, Myth in literature, Psychological aspects, Psychological aspects of Authorship, Romanticism
Places: United States
People: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), William Blake (1757-1827)