 | Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 262 pages
...from where we are. Cavell captures this point by focusing on Emerson's sentences from "Self-Reliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." As Cavell goes on to comment, these sentences propose that If the thoughts of a text such as Emerson's... | |
 | Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 300 pages
...by sharing the expressed visions of artists."89 According to Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self-Reliance," "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."90 This thought points toward both a way between Hegel and Danto on what is expressed and... | |
 | Nick Halpern - 2003 - 314 pages
...well. How can she say things like that in a way that isn't muted, ironic, guarded? Emerson writes, "In genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: They...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." 6 The evening grosbeaks in this poem seem to represent Rich's own rejected thoughts. Meanwhile, she... | |
 | Nick Halpern - 2003 - 312 pages
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 | Angus Jenkinson - 2003 - 292 pages
...the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.' The soul or psyche or mind (which for my purposes at the moment are interchangeable terms differing... | |
 | Marc Berley - 2003 - 296 pages
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 | Susan M. Ryan (Ph. D.) - 2003 - 268 pages
...worth in himself" (36). The most "affecting lesson" of "great works of art," Emerson avers, is that "they teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility." Should we fail to achieve this tenacity, "to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely... | |
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... 
