This essay is a contribution to literary history that explores Edgar Allan Poe’s criticism of the transcendentalist movement and its key figure Ralph Waldo Emerson through an analysis of the short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Never Bet the Devil Your Head.” By using genre criticism to define aspects of the Gothic genre, Poe’s criti...
The article explores the Akan concept of 'God'. Through the analysis of oral tradition, it suggests that is the Creator of the world and all there is in it is not fundamental to the religious beliefs of the Akan peoples. Belief in Nyame as creator is a late accident of cultural contact in the past few centuries, and it became prominent and central ...
Dans la perspective d’une confrontation entre le projet philosophique du jeune Carnap et la phénoménologie husserlienne, le présent article cherche à préciser dans quelle mesure et en quel sens Husserl a pu concevoir sa phénoménologie comme une entreprise constructive. Après avoir évoqué l’idée d’une construction phénoménologique des limites de l’e...
Researchers in religious studies, political theory, economics, and history have drawn attention to the dialectical emergence of modern capitalism along with new ways of being-in-the-world and understandings about what constitutes a full and free life. Max Weber’s classic text on the emergence of modern capitalism in Protestant contexts argues that ...
Abstract: This paper provides a textual analysis of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, revealing its significance as a national poem. The paper argues that Whitman’s “Song of Myself” breaks literary and political limits, challenging the sovereignty of the nation. By examining “Song of Myself” in the six different editions of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass...
What if the Emersonian Sublime was still an invitation? I want to believe that the Emersonian Sublime is more than a plea for self-reliance. It is an uplifting call to reexplore our inner self and to develop a genuine sense of broader responsibility toward nonhumans and humans alike. In the light of the global ecological crisis and pandemic, the Em...
This dissertation considers the work of three representative writers of the Transcendentalist movement—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Henry David Thoreau—and one of its most ardent skeptics—Herman Melville. Rather than presuming a single Transcendentalism, this study proposes several models of “affective Transcendentalisms,” int...
This paper provides a textual analysis of Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, revealing its significance as a national poem. The paper argues that Whitman’s "Song of Myself" breaks literary and political limits, challenging the sovereignty of the nation. By examining "Song of Myself" in the six different editions of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, this pap...
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Published in Romanian Journal of English Studies
This article will focus primarily on the ending of The Awakening: A Solitary Soul, probably the most discussed and debated part of Kate Chopin’s novel. The ending can be best understood if the novel is read as an exercise in late Transcendentalist philosophy, with Gothic undertones, plus realist, social commentary and modernist concerns. Walt Whitm...
