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049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aGuthrie, James R.$q(James Robert)
245 10 $aAbove time :$bEmerson's and Thoreau's temporal revolutions /$cJames R. Guthrie.
260 $aColumbia :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c©2001.
300 $axi, 262 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index.
530 $aAlso issued online.
505 00 $tA History of Time: Emerson and Lyell, Agassiz, and Darwin --$t"My Carnac" and Memnon's Head: Temporal Reform and Timely Memorials in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers --$tCircles and Lines: Emerson's Parade of Days --$tThe Walking Stick, the Surveyor's Staff, and the Corn in the Night: Thoreau's Alternative Temporal Indices --$tAnswering the Sphinx: The Evolution of the Emersonian Metamorphosis --$tInches' Wood: Thoreau's Re-membered Cultural Landscape --$tExtemporaneous Man, Representative Man.
520 $a"In Above Time, James R. Guthrie explores the origins of the two preeminent transcendentalists' revolutionary approaches to time, as well as to the related concepts of history, memory, and change. Most critical discussions of this period neglect the important truth that the entire American transcendentalist project involved a transcendence of temporality as well as of materiality. Correspondingly, both writers call in their major works for temporal reform, to be achieved primarily by rejecting the past and future in order to live in an amplified present moment. Emerson and Thoreau were compelled to see time in a new light by concurrent developments in the sciences and the professions. Geologists were just then hotly debating the age of the earth, while zoologists were beginning to unravel the mysteries of speciation, and archaeologists were deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs. These discoveries worked collectively to enlarge the scope of time, thereby helping pave the way for the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859. Well aware of these wider cultural developments, Emerson and Thoreau both tried (although with varying degrees of success) to integrate contemporary scientific thought with their preexisting late-romantic idealism. As transcendentalists, they already believed in the existence of "correspondences"—affinities between man and nature, formalized as symbols. These symbols could then be decoded to discover the animating presence in the world of eternal laws as pervasive as the laws of science. Yet unlike scientists, Emerson and Thoreau hoped to go beyond merely understanding nature to achieving a kind of passionate identity with it, and they believed that such a union might be achieved only if time was first recognized as being a purely human construct with little or no validity in the rest of the natural world. Consequently, both authors employ a series of philosophical, rhetorical, and psychological strategies designed to jolt their readers out of time, often by attacking received cultural notions about temporality. "--Publishers website.
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600 10 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,$d1803-1882$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 14 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,$d1803-1882$xViews on time.
600 14 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$xViews on time.
600 16 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,$d1803-1882$xEt le temps.
600 16 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$xEt le temps.
600 17 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo,$d1803-1882$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00028085
600 17 $aThoreau, Henry David,$d1817-1862$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00029125
600 17 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo$d1803-1882$2gnd
600 17 $aThoreau, Henry David$d1817-1862$2gnd
600 17 $aEmerson, Ralph Waldo.$2swd
600 17 $aThoreau, Henry David.$2swd
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTime in literature.
650 6 $aLittérature américaine$y19e siècle$xHistoire et critique.
650 6 $aTemps dans la littérature.
650 7 $aAmerican literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00807113
650 7 $aTime in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01151108
650 7 $aZeit$gMotiv$2gnd
648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGuthrie, James R. (James Robert).$tAbove time.$dColumbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2001$w(OCoLC)606597148
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001040986.html
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