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'Some Versions of Pastoral' and Related Writings by William Empson (2023)
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The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory (2018)
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There has yet to be a systematic study of Emerson’s use of metaphor. This essay engages with Emerson ‘Circles’ and Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in an effort to remedy that lack, and also to inaugurate a reassessment of the work undertaken by meta... Read More about The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory.

Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity (2016)
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This article offers an original interpretation of Emerson's theory of metaphor as a principle of creation as it appears in his lectures and journal of the 1820s and 1830s, the essay 'Nature' (1836), and as it develops into his theory of symbolism in... Read More about Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity.

‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate (2015)
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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1860 essay “Fate” has long been recognised as one of his most important essays. This paper is the first to examine the significance for Emerson of his reading of F. W. J. Shelling’s “Inquiry into the Nature of Human Freedom” usi... Read More about ‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate.

Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England (2012)
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In this afterword I look at the period 1850–1910 from a Transatlantic perspective, focusing on key New England writers whose work spans the disciplines of philosophy and literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Herman Me... Read More about Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England.

The skeptical deduction: Reading Kant and Cavell in Emerson's "Self-Reliance" (2007)
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The concept of irony: Jane Austen's Emma and Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre (2005)
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The poetry of origins and the origins of poetry: Norman O. Brown's Giambattista Vico and James Joyce (2005)
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Locating an American romanticism: Emerson, Cavell, 'experience' (2003)
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