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__Miles of Stare__ explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists. The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision is exemplified most famously by Emerson’s transparent eyeball. That disembodied, omniscient seer is able to shed its body and transcend sight paradoxically in order to seenot to createpoetic language manifest” on the American landscape. In __Miles of Stare__, Michelle Kohler explores the question of why, given American transcendentalism’s anti-empiricism, the movement’s central trope becomes an eye purged of imagination. And why, furthermore, she asks, despite its insistent empiricism, is this notorious eye also so decidedly not an eye? What are the ethics of casting a boldly equivocal metaphor as the source of a national literature amidst a national landscape fraught with slavery, genocide, poverty, and war? __Miles of Stare__ explores these questions first by tracing the historical emergence of the metaphor of poetic vision as the transcendentalists assimilated European precedents and

Who reads Miles of Stare : Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America?

Author

Dr. Michelle Kohler Ph.D

Publisher

The University of Alabama Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817318352

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism, History