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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... present order of things as a tree bears its apples . A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire sys- tem of human pursuits . ( 407-408 ) For Emerson in these relativistic frames of mind it would Emersonian Myth of ...
... present order of things as a tree bears its apples . A new degree of culture would instantly revolutionize the entire sys- tem of human pursuits . ( 407-408 ) For Emerson in these relativistic frames of mind it would Emersonian Myth of ...
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... present - it belittled , in fact , the significance of the acts and experiences of living Americans . In the second place , the prevailing knowl- edge was stiflingly cerebral , rationalistic , static in its vision of life . Not that ...
... present - it belittled , in fact , the significance of the acts and experiences of living Americans . In the second place , the prevailing knowl- edge was stiflingly cerebral , rationalistic , static in its vision of life . Not that ...
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... present - it is this earth to - day . ( 512 ) Whitman attacked what he saw as the tendency of the prevailing rationalistic knowledge to influence literature in the direction of conven- tionality , false consistency , and simplistic ...
... present - it is this earth to - day . ( 512 ) Whitman attacked what he saw as the tendency of the prevailing rationalistic knowledge to influence literature in the direction of conven- tionality , false consistency , and simplistic ...
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... Present literature , " Whitman charged in Democratic Vistas , " while magnificently fulfilling certain popular demands , with plenteous knowl- edge and verbal smartness , is profoundly sophisticated , insane , and its very joy is morbid ...
... Present literature , " Whitman charged in Democratic Vistas , " while magnificently fulfilling certain popular demands , with plenteous knowl- edge and verbal smartness , is profoundly sophisticated , insane , and its very joy is morbid ...
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... present : " to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousciance of the movements of animals , and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside , is the flawless triumph of art ...
... present : " to speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insousciance of the movements of animals , and the unimpeachableness of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside , is the flawless triumph of art ...
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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.
8 psl. - We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
20 psl. - From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand, I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood...
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.
8 psl. - As the traveller who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world.
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...
12 psl. - As the eyes of Lyncaeus were said to see through the earth, so the poet turns the world to glass, and shows us all things in their right series and procession.
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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Melville's Muse– Literary Creation & the Forms of Philosophical Fiction John Paul Wenke Trumpų ištraukų rodinys - 1995 |
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