...Such a liberatory figure would be so socially disengaged as to hold even his own kin of small account: "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me." 46 But he would in the end enjoy the fullest reward for his aloofness, since he would be "exercising...

...violent shunning, whereas Emerson's and Thoreau's worlds begin with or after the shunning of others ("I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me") and typically depict the "I" just beside itself. The interest of the connection is that all undertake...

...violent shunning, whereas Emerson's and Thoreau's worlds begin with or after the shunning of others ("I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me") and typically depict the "I" just beside itself. The interest of the connection is that all undertake...

...with private ray. ‘The Poet.' Essays, Second Series )sB44(. See also PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHERS I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope that it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation....

...variously as Spontaneity, Instinct, and Whim. Describing his own creative method, Emerson proudly declares: “I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.” 34 Alcott situates her protagonist within this discourse of creative individualismby introducing...

...therefore, given the danger, have to offer reasons for refusing any association or acts of convention. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Why should he be generous to the needy? "Are they my poor?" He will go to prison for a cause that is...

...therefore, given the danger, have to offer reasons for refusing any association or acts of convention. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Why should he be generous to the needy? "Are they my poor; 1 '" He will go to prison for a cause that...

...therefore, given the danger, have to offer reasons for refusing any association or acts of convention. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Why should he be generous to the needy? "Are they my poor?" He will go to prison for a cause that is...

...only to itself, above all compromise, beyond all cooperation. This is the Emerson who calls on us to "shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me," who insists that "When the good is near you... you shall not discern the footprints of any other; you...

...the future as "steps, but without a path" (1995: 8). Elsewhere he invokes a passage from Emerson: "l shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. l would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. l hope it is somewhat better than whim at last,...