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The Ice Harp

Af: Norman Lock Engelsk Paperback

The Ice Harp

Af: Norman Lock Engelsk Paperback
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Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest

In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America’s foremost essayist and orator. To the dismay of his wife, he frequently entertains the specters of his fellow transcendentalists, including Whitman, Thoreau, John Muir, and Margaret Fuller, and frets about the future of humankind and the natural world. Does the present displace the past? Do ideas always precede actions? What responsibility does each of us bear for the downtrodden, the preservation of liberty, and the Earth itself? These metaphysical concerns become concrete when Emerson meets a Black soldier accused of killing a white man who abused him. The soldier’s presence demands a response from Emerson, an action outside the parlors of philosophy and beyond the realm where language and logic hold sway.

The Ice Harp, the tenth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, is a poignant portrayal of a literary luminary coming to terms with the loss of memory, the cost of inaction, and the end of life.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrest

In 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America’s foremost essayist and orator. To the dismay of his wife, he frequently entertains the specters of his fellow transcendentalists, including Whitman, Thoreau, John Muir, and Margaret Fuller, and frets about the future of humankind and the natural world. Does the present displace the past? Do ideas always precede actions? What responsibility does each of us bear for the downtrodden, the preservation of liberty, and the Earth itself? These metaphysical concerns become concrete when Emerson meets a Black soldier accused of killing a white man who abused him. The soldier’s presence demands a response from Emerson, an action outside the parlors of philosophy and beyond the realm where language and logic hold sway.

The Ice Harp, the tenth stand-alone book in The American Novels series, is a poignant portrayal of a literary luminary coming to terms with the loss of memory, the cost of inaction, and the end of life.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9781954276178
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1954276176
Udg. Dato: 17 aug 2023
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 191mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Bellevue Literary Press
Oplagsdato: 17 aug 2023
Forfatter(e): Norman Lock
Forfatter(e) Norman Lock


Kategori Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier


ISBN-13 9781954276178


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 240


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 191mm


Højde 127mm


Udg. Dato 17 aug 2023


Oplagsdato 17 aug 2023


Forlag Bellevue Literary Press

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