American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of EpistemologyDuke University Press, 1991 - 391 psl. In this challenging work, Ronald E. Martin analyzes the impulse of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century American writers to undermine not only their inherited paradigms of literary and linguistic thought but to question how paradigms themselves are constructed. Through analyses of these writers, as well as contemporaneous scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and visual artists, American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge creates a panoramic view of American literature over the past 150 years and shows it to be a crucial part of the great philosophical changes of the period. The works of Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and Dickinson, followed by Crane, Frost, Pound, Stein, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Aiken, Stevens, and Williams, are examined as part of a cultural current that casts doubt on the possibility of knowledge itself. The destruction of concepts, of literary and linguistic forms, was for these writers a precondition for liberating the imagination to gain more access to the self and the real world. As part of the exploration of this cultural context, literary and philosophical realisms are examined together, allowing a comparison of their somewhat different objectives, as well as their common epistemological predicament. |
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... destroyed . " 2 That proposition still sounds incredible — an impossibility and a vio- * Throughout this book numbered footnotes are used only for documentation . Substan- tive notes appear at the bottoms of pages . lation of all our ...
... destroyed . " 2 That proposition still sounds incredible — an impossibility and a vio- * Throughout this book numbered footnotes are used only for documentation . Substan- tive notes appear at the bottoms of pages . lation of all our ...
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... destroyed , and by what seemed to be an incredible sally of the imagina- tion , then other habitual modes of thought that were impeding rather than facilitating knowing might be similarly jettisoned . The new episte- mology of science ...
... destroyed , and by what seemed to be an incredible sally of the imagina- tion , then other habitual modes of thought that were impeding rather than facilitating knowing might be similarly jettisoned . The new episte- mology of science ...
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... destroy the knowledge , the forms , and the traditions by which human- kind had been so trapped . In Part V I give full - dress demonstrations of my concepts and hypoth- eses , focusing on several twentieth - century writers , their ...
... destroy the knowledge , the forms , and the traditions by which human- kind had been so trapped . In Part V I give full - dress demonstrations of my concepts and hypoth- eses , focusing on several twentieth - century writers , their ...
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... destroy- ing behaviors fall outside the bounds of this study , an acknowledgment of them will serve to indicate the far - reaching significance I see in this episte- mological orientation . Epistemological nihilism has become endemic ...
... destroy- ing behaviors fall outside the bounds of this study , an acknowledgment of them will serve to indicate the far - reaching significance I see in this episte- mological orientation . Epistemological nihilism has become endemic ...
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... destroyed knowledge not out of contempt for or bias against knowing , but out of a desire to know more than could be ... destroy knowledge too , and on a vast scale , it has very different characteristics . It is provincial , complacent ...
... destroyed knowledge not out of contempt for or bias against knowing , but out of a desire to know more than could be ... destroy knowledge too , and on a vast scale , it has very different characteristics . It is provincial , complacent ...
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7 psl. - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
73 psl. - In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
210 psl. - thing' whether subjective or objective. 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. 3. As regarding rhythm: to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
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91 psl. - We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold.
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6 psl. - It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect he Is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man there is a great public power, on which he can draw by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him...
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257 psl. - THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR T.HE man bent over his guitar, A shearsman of sorts. The day was green. They said, "You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.
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