 | American Metempsychosis Subjects: Transmigration in literature.; National characteristics American in literature.; Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature.; American literature; American Metempsychosis explores the ancient concept of metempsychosis as a precursor to the idea of history. In the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman, metempsychosis serves as a form of American self-knowing - the effort to reshape identity through a self's heightened awareness of its own cognitive succession. Corrigan John Michael : John Michael Corrigan is an Assistant Professor of American Literature at Ming Chuan University, Taiwan. |
