American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in the Age of EpistemologyDuke University Press, 1991 - 391 من الصفحات 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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... Stein and the Splendid Century 179 Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway : The Discipline of Destruction 208 Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens : The Mind Watches the Mind Hunting the Real 231 13 William Carlos Williams : Thinking a World ...
... Stein and the Splendid Century 179 Ezra Pound and Ernest Hemingway : The Discipline of Destruction 208 Conrad Aiken and Wallace Stevens : The Mind Watches the Mind Hunting the Real 231 13 William Carlos Williams : Thinking a World ...
الصفحة x
... Stein's Four in America ( 1947 ) , and Selected Letters of Con- rad Aiken , ed . Joseph Killoran ( 1978 ) , are quoted by permission of Yale University Press . Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein , ed . Carl Van Vechten ( 1962 ) , is ...
... Stein's Four in America ( 1947 ) , and Selected Letters of Con- rad Aiken , ed . Joseph Killoran ( 1978 ) , are quoted by permission of Yale University Press . Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein , ed . Carl Van Vechten ( 1962 ) , is ...
الصفحة xii
... Stein insists , " One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowl- edge and to the answer that knowledge is what one knows " —not what is comfortably generalized and conventionally accepted . And , as Ezra Pound puts it ...
... Stein insists , " One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowl- edge and to the answer that knowledge is what one knows " —not what is comfortably generalized and conventionally accepted . And , as Ezra Pound puts it ...
الصفحة xvii
... Stein , Pound , Hemingway , Aiken , Stevens , Williams , and Dos Passos . I choose these writers to represent a variety of salient examples of knowl- edge destruction . My purpose is to find the shape of a cultural current , not to ...
... Stein , Pound , Hemingway , Aiken , Stevens , Williams , and Dos Passos . I choose these writers to represent a variety of salient examples of knowl- edge destruction . My purpose is to find the shape of a cultural current , not to ...
الصفحة xxi
... Stein , Stevens , Aiken , Hemingway , and Williams the assault was nearly wholly implicit , albeit , I would assert , for all of them it took place on a level deeper than that of the issue or even of the philosophy . If questions about ...
... Stein , Stevens , Aiken , Hemingway , and Williams the assault was nearly wholly implicit , albeit , I would assert , for all of them it took place on a level deeper than that of the issue or even of the philosophy . If questions about ...
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الصفحة 7 - 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.
الصفحة 73 - In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.
الصفحة 210 - 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.
الصفحة 8 - 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.
الصفحة 20 - From the stump of the arm, the amputated hand, I undo the clotted lint, remove the slough, wash off the matter and blood...
الصفحة 91 - 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.
الصفحة 8 - 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.
الصفحة 6 - 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...
الصفحة 12 - 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.
الصفحة 257 - 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.