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Dickinson At Thirty, Philip Pardi
Dickinson At Thirty, Philip Pardi
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
When we say there are “no Mozarts in literature,” we point to an enticing fact: writers become. Pick any text you love or revere, and there was a moment earlier in the author’s life when it could not have been written. The writers we remember develop over time; they change and are changed. Their careers divide, if not always easily, into a before (often thought of as a kind of apprenticeship) and an after (a work or body of work that has a significant claim on our attention). Personal relationships, lived experiences, social and political contexts, readers real and imagined, …
Speaking Through Self-Effacement : The Sermonic Influence In Melville, Dickinson, And Thoreau, Katsuya Izumi
Speaking Through Self-Effacement : The Sermonic Influence In Melville, Dickinson, And Thoreau, Katsuya Izumi
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation focuses on how some of the major literary authors of nineteenth-century America attempt to speak through self-effacement by adopting the preaching styles and effects of early Protestant sermons, as well as their purposes for doing so. There is the evanescence of characters in Herman Melville's novels such as Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre (1852), of the speaker in Emily Dickinson's poems, and of the narrator in Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) and Walden (1854). In their works there is a certain type of abhorrence toward the self, and they constantly try to …