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My efforts and their results are dedicated to my grandmothers Irene Sauban and Jeanne Barton whose lives demonstrated the magnanimous effects of constant reading, and also to my brother William Barton who never hesitates to read from the text of the world. ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This project and I are indebted to innumerable people for their love, support, and patience. I will always have indefatigable gratitude for my time with Eric Wilson, and for his indelible influence on my intellectual development while at Wake Forest University and in London. It must be rare that a graduate student is given the opportunity to study with a mentor whom he truly admires and looks up to, and I am cognizant of how lucky I’ve been. Similarly, it’s difficult to express the extent of my appreciation for Omaar Hena, but it’s clear that Wake is unbelievably lucky to employ him for what is certain to be a ground breaking and distinguished career in post-colonial studies. I also must thank my Cal. State professors Chad Luck, Margaret Doane, Cynthia Cotter, and Julie Sophia Paegle for preparing me for the rigors of graduate school and for their encouragement. Whatever successes this paper will accomplish are directly influenced by my nuclear and extended family, and especially my mother Yvonne Marie Sauban. It’s by her example and through her monolithic support of all my endeavors that I continue to cultivate my own personal sense of Emersonian self-reliance. This project also bears the ineffaceable influence of my father Richard Barton—who pays Emerson a great compliment by embodying “Man Thinking”—and my brother William of whom I am so proud. I am also thankful for the perennial influence of my “second mother” Jill Henry, who, among countless others things, helped me discover my passion for English in high school. And it would be nearly impossible to form a catalogue of the friends who played an instrumental role in my not going insane during the drafting process, but I am so thankful for Megan, Wes, Emily, Kathleen, and Katie and my Worrellites, who were especially diligent in talking me down from the metaphorical ledge. I love you all, and thank you! iii
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Page 5 and 6: ABSTRACT Self-reliance is a signifi
Page 7 and 8: “And must I go & do some what if
Page 9 and 10: Redundancy, here, refers to that wh
Page 11 and 12: When we read actively, we can profi
Page 13 and 14: In addition, a couple of intelligen
Page 15 and 16: language, reading, and self-relianc
Page 17 and 18: “The Poet”, it is clear that Em
Page 19 and 20: senses of a single word, phrase, or
Page 21 and 22: CHAPTER ONE “THE WHOLE ENCYCLOPED
Page 23 and 24: this” (Emerson SR 121). Indeed, f
Page 25 and 26: hours should be instructed by the a
Page 27 and 28: eading, then, finds what remains in
Page 29 and 30: By allowing herself to be “writte
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Page 33 and 34: work of literature is simultaneousl
Page 35 and 36: the reader becomes a part that has
Page 37 and 38: simultaneously expands the catalogu
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Page 41 and 42: of men, —these are all his, and b
Page 43 and 44: strictly textual relationship to so
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Page 47 and 48: already affected by time, as our pe
Page 49 and 50: However, our deficient language, in
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compares his ideal creative reader
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natural, and most literate people a
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though the word itself connotes bei
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worlds; for the metamorphosis once
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plays a necessary role in the meani
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acknowledgement of the negative rep
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CHAPTER THREE “MY BOY, MY BOY IS
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linguistic signification towards a
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paralytic hesitation after discover
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Every ship is a romantic object exc
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suffering’s import at an ontologi
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the emotion. As such, there are two
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What a rhetorical reading of the fo
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words like “puny”, “toil” a
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necessary to trace how a subject ca
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Emerson partially reverts back to u
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By implicitly contrasting “the wi
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concept of situation is especially
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Therefore, a necessary consideratio
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this “[b]y obeying each thought f
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Emerson calls these interpretative
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immortality is not a static state o
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allows the self-reliant to continue
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We owe to books those general benef
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chapters in Society and Solitude an
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Alcott, Louisa May.
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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass and
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Honors Community Service Experience
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