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1、NormanO.Brown,HerbertMarcuseandtheRomanticTraditionByDavidGreenham,B.A.Hons.,M.A.ThesissubmittedtotheUniversityofNottinghamforthedegreeofDoctorofPhilosophy,October20012——TableofContents——Abstract3Acknowledgements4Preface5Chapter1:LocatinganAmericanRomanticism:RalphWaldoEmerson‟s„Experience‟9Cha
2、pter2:TheDialecticsofEros:LifeAgainstDeathandErosandCivilization62Chapter3:TheAestheticState:Phantasie,MythandMemory125Chapter4:TheMysticalImagination:SymbolismandtheAboriginalSelfinLove’sBody172Chapter5:TheOriginsofPoetryandthePoetryofOrigins:NormanO.BrownandGiambattistaVico228Conclusion:Trans
3、atlanticRomanticism276Bibliography2903——Abstract——ThisthesispresentstheworkofNormanO.BrownandHerbertMarcuseasresponsestoaromanticproblematicobtainedfirstandforemostfromthelegacyofImmanuelKant‟scriticalphilosophy,and,secondly,fromthefirstsignificantAmericanrealisationofthisinheritanceinthewritin
4、gsofRalphWaldoEmerson.TheimportanceofthisromanticreadingisthatitescapestheusualinterpretationsofMarcuseandBrownintermsofMarxismandPsychoanalysis,insteadtracingthesignificanceoftheirthoughttoanearlierphilosophicalfoundationinEuropeandAmerica.KantandEmersonremaintouchstonesthroughout;anditisthrou
5、ghthemthat,inChapter1,IhavedeterminedwhatIshallbecallingromanticisminanAmericancontext,readingEmerson‟sessay„Experience‟(1844)asanexemplaryoccasion.InChapter2,twoofthemajorworksofMarcuseandBrown,ErosandCivilization(1956)andLifeAgainstDeath(1959)areexam-inedphilosophicallyintermsoftheirdialectic
6、alrethinkingofnarcissism,showinghowtheybegintorespondtotheromanticquestionsetoutinChapter1.InChapter3,Iex-aminetheuseofmythandaesthetics,payingparticularattentiontotheintegrityofthefailingsofMarcuse‟saesthetictheory,whichstemfromitsromanticoriginsinKantandSchiller.Chapter4isareadingofBrown‟sLov
7、e’sBody(1966),presentedagainstMar-cuse‟scriticisms(1967),inwhichIestablishtheimportanceofsymbolismandoriginalityforBrown,tracingthemagaintothemespresentinKantandEmerson.Chapter5in-terpretsBrown‟sClosingTime(1973)throughanextensive
