...alongside Cavell's Emerson ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have...pan; the ballad in the street,, the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kara in Hell, with its idea of a museum of everyday paintings...

...alongside Cavell's Emerson ("I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have...meaning of? The meal in the firkin,- the milk in the pan,the ballad in the street,- the news of the boat . . .").60 Compare the "Prologue" to Kora in Hell,...

...Emerson understood this danger when he advised us to discover the real meaning of America by examining "the meal in the firkin: the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and gait of the body." Unfortunately, according to Fishwick, seeking a methodology which...

...penetrated and illumined as part of one design. 'What would we really know the meaning of?' Emerson asked. 'The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body; - show me the ultimate reason of these matters, show me the...

...of effort to become more alive to the present moment as the only theater of spiritual development. "Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds" (CW 1: 67). These influences of modern literature were also supplemented by a wide variety of religious...

...when in 'The American Scholar' (1837) he wrote of the significance of 'the meaning of household life': What would we really know the meaning of? The meal...milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news from the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body; show me the ultimate reason...

...than all foreign parts. ... I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have the antique and future worlds." Boo\s for General Reading and Discussion: (1) An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser. Liveright. $1.00....

...1 g This presentist sensibility is reinforced by Emerson in "The American Scholar" when he writes, "Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds." This passage is an indicator of how Emerson addresses the tragedy of a diminished past and an unknown...

...art, or Provengal minstrelsy; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into today, and you may have...the street; the news of the boat; the glance of the eye; the form and the gait of the body — show me the ultimate reason of these matters; show me the...

...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...the street; the 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...