Ralph Waldo Emerson, ou le génie de l’imitation
Emerson’s essays testify to the writing subject’s desire for originality, his will to stop “[groping] among the dry bones of the past” (Nature, 27) in order to project himself ahead, literally to ex-press himself. This prospective impulse is however undermined by the subject’s realization that he is...
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2809 |