Category: ralph waldo emerson

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+ art, Paul Gauguin, ralph waldo emerson, vincent van gogh, wilma dykeman

Look at the Landscape Through Your Legs: How Our Imagination Shapes Our View of the World

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In her posthumously published memoir Family of Earth: A Southern Mountain Childhood, Wilma Dykeman asks us to think about the ways that we process reality and the stories we hear and share. Dykeman wrote the manuscript in her twenties in the early 1940s. Early on, she details learning to walk and learning to speak, moments that most people do not remember at all. I know, … Read More Look at the Landscape Through Your Legs: How Our Imagination Shapes Our View of the World

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+ berlin conference, Palestine, propaganda, ralph waldo emerson, terraform

How do we view the world?

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How do we view the world? How do changes in our perception occur? How do those changes affect us? These are all questions that I’ve thought about recently, in various ways. When I think about the ways that we view the world around us, I always return to a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature where he talks about the ways that “a small … Read More How do we view the world?

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+ american literature, bergen, Norway, Fløyen, herman melville, john marrant, Jonathan edwards, mary rowlandson, norway, ralph waldo emerson, rebecca harding davis, transcendentalism

Norway and Emerson!

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If you enjoy what you read here at Interminable Rambling, think about making a contribution on our Patreon page.  While I ultimately see Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and the transcendentalists’ ideas as pretty little bubbles devoid of any substance, I enjoy reading Emerson’s thoughts on nature, beauty, and perception. Being in Norway this year, Emerson’s words keep coming back to me almost everyday as I … Read More Norway and Emerson!

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+ african american literature, american literature, anne bradstreet, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur, john hector st john de crevecoeur, john winthrop, mary rowlandson, native american literature, ralph waldo emerson, sui sin far, walt whitman, william apess

Introductory Lecture for American Literature Course

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Tomorrow, my ENG122 course, American Literature and Culture, will being at the University of Bergen. The course is set up with lectures (about 150 students) and seminars (about 30 students). There are four instructors, and each instructor delivers about 3-4 lectures each throughout the course of the semester. As well, each instructor has two of the seminar sessions. I will be presenting the four … Read More Introductory Lecture for American Literature Course

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+ american literature, early american literature, life in the iron mills, ralph waldo emerson, rebecca harding davis, transcendentalism

The Canary in Davis’ “Life in the Iron Mills”

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When I taught Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills (1861) this semester, I asked students to think about the opening paragraphs where the narrator describes the scene and implores the reader to come right down with her “into the thickest of the fog and mud and foul effluvia.” The opening images bring to mind Gothic texts as the narrator describes the trash … Read More The Canary in Davis’ “Life in the Iron Mills”

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