 | Michael West - 2000 - 546 pages
...midcentury America's most eloquent spokesmen for "the party of Irony."z0 8/ Go Slow — Man Thinking When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the...manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant. — Emerson, "The American Scholar" Emerson Whips Words Until the Silence Reverberates Throughout the... | |
 | Nigel Blake - 2000 - 264 pages
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 | David L. Minter - 2001 - 188 pages
...Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (1963) One must be an inventor to read well. As the proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry...Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of the author is as broad as the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar" (1837) Contents... | |
 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pages
...ignore the record of the past, but approach it in a less overawed, more critical and active spirit: "There is then creative reading as well as creative...book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion" (p. 59). Emerson's vision is consonant with our best current thinking on reading, that meaning is created... | |
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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and die sense of our author is... 
