Frontiers of Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Studies in American Philosophy and PoetryFrontiers of Consciousness is a study of the problem of consciousness in a historic period of revolutionary change, and an authentic example of "interdisciplinary studies." The book contains a wealth of insight into the conceptual interrelationships between the work of the American philosophers who have been called the Builders (William James, Josiah Royce, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the work of three great modernist poets (T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams). |
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... intellectual fellowship which I have shared since 1938 in the service of a collective vision involving a community of let- ters , sciences , and arts , and embracing all modes of study and inquiry at Bennington . " The community of ...
... intellectual fellowship which I have shared since 1938 in the service of a collective vision involving a community of let- ters , sciences , and arts , and embracing all modes of study and inquiry at Bennington . " The community of ...
Page xi
... intellectual life at this historical period . For what began as a series of monologues has become a conversation . It may seem odd that a school like Bennington , renowned for informality and a spirit of improvisation , has chosen to ...
... intellectual life at this historical period . For what began as a series of monologues has become a conversation . It may seem odd that a school like Bennington , renowned for informality and a spirit of improvisation , has chosen to ...
Page xiv
... intellectuals who punctured the decorum of literary dis- course . " All you needed to be called a literary critic ... intellectual , his or her obligations toward and questionable utility to modern society , are problems much vexed in ...
... intellectuals who punctured the decorum of literary dis- course . " All you needed to be called a literary critic ... intellectual , his or her obligations toward and questionable utility to modern society , are problems much vexed in ...
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... intellectual would seem to be one and the same beast . But Bellow wryly apologizes for his penchant for ideas ... intellectually coherent tone of the col- lection . They are men , with two exceptions ( an imbalance we hope and suspect ...
... intellectual would seem to be one and the same beast . But Bellow wryly apologizes for his penchant for ideas ... intellectually coherent tone of the col- lection . They are men , with two exceptions ( an imbalance we hope and suspect ...
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... intellectual activity . Politics and its troubled relations with aesthetics is another recurrent theme in these essays . Denis Donoghue lays out the ground of the age - old argument between word and deed , formal- ism and social ...
... intellectual activity . Politics and its troubled relations with aesthetics is another recurrent theme in these essays . Denis Donoghue lays out the ground of the age - old argument between word and deed , formal- ism and social ...
Contents
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Divination | 21 |
Whitmans Image of Voice | 42 |
The Politics of Modern Criticism | 72 |
The Making of a Critic | 93 |
Wilde Yeats Joyce | 115 |
Long Work Short Life | 134 |
Three Spiritual Exercises | 147 |
Summations | 164 |
Magic and Spells | 182 |
Nabokov on Cruelty | 198 |
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeares Julius Caesar | 221 |
Fiction Morals and Politics | 243 |
Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas | 255 |
What Henry James Knew | 276 |
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Page 131 - Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
Page 232 - To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue— A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; Domestic fury and fierce civil strife Shall cumber all the parts of Italy...
Page 43 - 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.
Page 267 - Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they 5 Do not go gentle into that good night.
Page 53 - In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.
Page 56 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.
Page 189 - Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is; What if my leaves are falling like its own! The tumult of thy mighty harmonies Will take from both a deep, autumnal tone, Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce, My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one! Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth!
Page 64 - States themselves as of crapeveil'd women standing, With processions long and winding and the flambeaus of the night, With the countless torches lit, with the silent sea of faces and the unbared...
Page 54 - With the tolling tolling bells' perpetual clang, Here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac. 7 (Nor for you, for one alone, Blossoms and branches green to coffins all I bring, For fresh as the morning, thus would I chant a song for you O sane and sacred death. All over bouquets of roses...