| Maurice Wohlgelernter - 1993 - 428 páginas
...I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds....news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; . . . 14 Emerson immediately provides the response to the rhetorical question posed... | |
| Jackson Lears - 1995 - 416 páginas
...contradictory American mission. The artist was to engage the palpable actualities of everyday life — "the meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body," in Emerson's litany — yet these were merely appearances to be penetrated en route... | |
| Richard Swigg - 1994 - 284 páginas
...the poet's celebration." 13 So Emerson's example in "The American Scholar" (1837)—as he tells over "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street" 14 —belongs, for Tomlinson, in his introduction to the Selected Poems of Williams, with the "list"... | |
| Hans Bergmann - 1995 - 276 páginas
...become the subject of educated, elite attention. He proposes a new task for the American scholar: 31 What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; — show me the sublime presence... | |
| Forrest G. Robinson - 1995 - 288 páginas
..."What would we really know the meaning of?" asked Emerson sweeping aside the long descent of erudition. "The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body."7 Though he was indubitably "very respectable," Emerson anticipated Hemingway's preference... | |
| Donald Pizer - 1995 - 310 páginas
...Domestically, the origins of realism can be traced back through famous passages of Ralph Waldo Emerson (such as "What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street . . .") and Joel Barlow's "Hasty Pudding," arriving ultimately at 1610 or 1607 (if we settle for English-language... | |
| James Peter Burkholder - 1996 - 470 páginas
...I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds....would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firken; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye;... | |
| Regina Bendix - 1997 - 324 páginas
...I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds....the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body;—show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the highest spiritual... | |
| Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 páginas
...common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight to-day, and you may have antique and future worlds. What would we really know...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the ultimate presence of... | |
| Ruth Anna Putnam - 1997 - 430 páginas
...the importance of domestic culture in James's work, these words from Emerson's "American Scholar": What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the sublime presence of the... | |
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