Emerson et la figure de l'inventeur
This article seeks to interpret the ubiquitous presence of the inventor in Emerson’s writings. What power(s) is this figure endowed with—historical and social as much as poetic and philosophical—for Emerson to write that “one must be an inventor to read well”, or that “only an inventor knows how to...
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cairn-RFEA_091_0027RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2002-1-page-27?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.091.0027 Emerson et la figure de l'inventeur Brunet, François2002 CitationEmersonénieInventeurInventionEmersonGeniusInventionInventorQuotationfre Revue française d’études américaines | 91 | 1 | 2002-02-01 | p. 27-42 | 0397-7870 RFEA_09121 This article seeks to interpret the ubiquitous presence of the inventor in Emerson’s writings. What power(s) is this figure endowed with—historical and social as much as poetic and philosophical—for Emerson to write that “one must be an inventor to read well”, or that “only an inventor knows how to borrow”? These paradoxes highlight moments of special energy in the essays, where the (practical) model of the inventor serves to typify the (moral and intellectual) virtue of the scholar. But Emerson’s constantly ambiguous assimilation to the figure of the inventor is also a way of staging the experience of writing as turning the private into the public, and as an exercise in democratic “borrowing”.Cairn free access |
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This article seeks to interpret the ubiquitous presence of the inventor in Emerson’s writings. What power(s) is this figure endowed with—historical and social as much as poetic and philosophical—for Emerson to write that “one must be an inventor to read well”, or that “only an inventor knows how to borrow”? These paradoxes highlight moments of special energy in the essays, where the (practical) model of the inventor serves to typify the (moral and intellectual) virtue of the scholar. But Emerson’s constantly ambiguous assimilation to the figure of the inventor is also a way of staging the experience of writing as turning the private into the public, and as an exercise in democratic “borrowing”. |
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