 | Laura Dassow Walls - 2003 - 302 páginas
...binocular vision that restores to the world "original and eternal beauty."89 For, as Emerson continues, "The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake." Reasserting the vitality of his chosen role, Emerson warns that "he cannot be a naturalist,... | |
 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 páginas
...the self and the outside world, as we look at it through lenses that do not converge: "The ruin or blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake. The reason why the world lacks unity and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited... | |
 | 156 páginas
...books, Emerson identifies the solution to what he has termed the "problem of doubleconsciousness": The problem of restoring to the world original and...solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or blank that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The axis of vision is not coincident with... | |
 | Paul Scott Derrick, Paul Scott - 2003 - 162 páginas
...of as a slightly privileged 2 This is what Emerson is referring to when he writes, in Nature, that "The problem of restoring to the world original and...when we look at nature, is in our own eye. [...] The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 páginas
...is we ourselves who blanch the excellence of the external world through human defects of character: "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake" (E, 47). For Milton, by contrast, we do not see enough white, since the "Eternal Coeternal beam"... | |
 | Joel Porte - 2008 - 256 páginas
..."to more earnest vision." Mounting to his splendid peroration in "Prospects," Emerson reminds us that "the ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at...of things, and so they appear not transparent but opake." A cleansing of our vision is all that is required for "the redemption of the soul." In such... | |
 | Peter Sharpe - 2004 - 400 páginas
...the metaphoric energies are absorbed by each figure, reflecting no greater glory. We are left with "the ruin or the blank that we see when we look at nature," when man is "disunited with himself."24 Thus: the anguish of concreteness, when the discourse between... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 páginas
...emphases on alienation and vision, certainly High Romantic — both Coleridgean and Wordsworthian: The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by die redemption of the soul. The ruin, or the blank, diat we see when we look at nature, is in our own... | |
 | Andrew Norris - 2006 - 404 páginas
...Yet Unapproachable America, p. 43; and see "The Argument of the Ordinary," p. 83. Compare Emerson: "The ruin or the blank that we see when we look at...things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque" (Selected Essays, p. 79). 52. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, trans. RJ Hollingdale and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 páginas
...whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted and he is a selfish savage. The problem of restoring to the world original and...see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Whilst the abstract question occupies... | |
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The problem of restoring to the world original and eternal beauty, is solved by the redemption of the soul. The ruin or the blank, that we see when we look at nature, is in our own eye. 
