Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet hence arises a grave mischief. The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation, — the act... Emerson: Political Writings - Página 14editado por - 2008Pré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
| Gustavo Pérez Firmat - 1990 - 412 páginas
...American Scholar" (1837) established the grounds for a national, popular American literature — "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."13 Marti's "Nuestra America" similarly provided a base for a national, Latin American literature... | |
| Norman O. Brown - 2023 - 216 páginas
...Transcendentalist anticipation of what I want to say in Emerson's Phi Beta Kappa address on the American Scholar: "The books of an older period will not fit this. Yet...the act of thought, is transferred to the record. Instantly the book becomes noxious: the guide is a tyrant. The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude... | |
| Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 428 páginas
...only one aspect of his conception that knowledge needs to be up-to-date, continually newly created: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books;...The books of an older period will not fit this."** In "The American Scholar" *That movement had been established and promoted by Francis Calley Gray,... | |
| Robert Milder - 1995 - 266 páginas
...local, the perishable" (CW\, 55), and were therefore in need of constant revision; "each age . . . must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding" (CW I, 56).46 With his deep-seated a- or transhistoricism, Thoreau could discount the warp of temporality... | |
| Martin Klepper - 1996 - 398 páginas
...anti-orthodoxe Spiel kann zur Orthodoxie werden... 40 2. Regelwerk - Methodik und Interesse "Each age must write its own books; or rather each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." - RW Emerson, "The American Scholar" Ich möchte in diesem Buch ein Stück Literaturgeschichte nachvollziehen.... | |
| W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 páginas
...entirely excluded. Hence, each age must write its own books, else a great mischief arises, in which "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...act of thought, — is transferred to the record." Atop this misapprehension was constructed a veritable manufactory of books, written by those "who start... | |
| Harold Augenbraum, Margarite Fernández Olmos - 1997 - 532 páginas
...its own terms," echoing Ralph Waldo Emerson's earlier call in The American Scholar (1837): "Each age must write its own books; or rather, each generation...succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this." Creating consensus in the United States after the Vietnam War, the Cold War, and the movements for... | |
| Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 páginas
...entombment is the moment of institutionalization, the moment when, as he tells us in "The American Scholar," "the sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record" (W, 1: 88). What this record commemorates, as the monument or tomb of the act of creation, is not the... | |
| Edward L. Widmer - 1998 - 305 páginas
...College. Working his collegiate audience, he called for books relevant to a new generation of Americans: "Each age, it is found, must write its own books....succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this."1 But Emerson was far from alone in emphasizing the saving grace of youthfulness. That same year,... | |
| W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Peter L. Shillingsburg - 1997 - 458 páginas
...potentially harmful version of the creative process. A "grave mischief" arises, according to Emerson, when "The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation,...the act of thought, is transferred to the record." Given the fact that only the record remains, the course the editors of Emerson's sermons have steered,... | |
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