Abstract

Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism is the first study to entirely deal with the poetics of American Transcendentalism. The author takes it for granted that the major New England transcendentalists were writers of utmost literary significance and so focuses thoroughly on their extremely rich and many-sided poetic discourse. The book¿s inevitable European perspective only enhances its preoccupation with the Americanness of the New England Transcendentalists, thus making it emphasize, in all the aspects of its concern, the uniqueness of the interrelation between place-sense and artistry which the transcendentalists¿ writings offer. Because most of these writings hold iconic stature as American masterpieces, both scholars and lay readers will welcome Visibility beyond the Visible. The Poetic Discourse of American Transcendentalism as opening novel horizons for greater insights, deeper understandings, and further exploration of the poetic complexities of Emerson¿s, Thoreau¿s, M. Fuller¿s, and their co-thinkers¿ work. Albena Bakratcheva is Professor of American Literature at New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria. She is member of The Thoreau Society U.S.A. and Executive Council member of the International American Studies Association (IASA). Her work includes: Similarities in Divergences (1995), Potentialities of Discourse (1997), Visibility Beyond the Visible (Bulg., 2007), The Call of the Green (2009).