 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 pàgines
...Scholar" places high emphasis on the process of "creative reading": "When the mind is braced by labor and invention the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion." In 1941, Matthiessen observed that "no American writer before Emerson had devoted such searching attention... | |
 | Eduardo Cadava - 1997 - 276 pàgines
.... . . 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...and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . . . there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History . . . he must learn... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...reading. 6 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...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, (1803-1882) US essayist, poet, philosopher. The American Scholar, Nature, Addresses... | |
 | Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 pàgines
...circumstances attain all its zest. [...] When the mind is braced by the weighty expectation of a prepared work, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous...doubly significant, and the sense of our author is äs broad äs the world. There is creative reading äs well äs creative writing. (Emerson 1926, 170)... | |
 | James W. Sire - 2000 - 268 pàgines
.... . . 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...the sense of our author is as broad as the world. RALPH WALDO EMERSON "The American Scholar" I pause, take out a pen and draw a line in the margin. This... | |
 | Michael West - 2000 - 546 pàgines
...spokesmen for "the party of Irony."z0 8/ Go Slow — Man Thinking When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes...manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant. — Emerson, "The American Scholar" Emerson Whips Words Until the Silence Reverberates Throughout the... | |
 | David L. Minter - 2001 - 188 pàgines
...Indies." 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...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... | |
 | Gregory J. Rummo - 2002 - 338 pàgines
...Book) "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...the sense of our author is as broad as the world." —From "The American Scholar" by Ralph Waldo Emerson So, you've picked up this book and you are browsing... | |
 | Martin Bickman - 2003 - 193 pàgines
...spirit: "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" (p. 59). Emerson's vision is consonant with our best current thinking on reading, that meaning is created... | |
 | David Carr - 2006 - 180 pàgines
...world at hand — heroic work? How is it that, in Emerson's words, "When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion"?'1 What kind of heroism involves such luminous reading? It is no different from Emerson's... | |
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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 the sense of our author is... 
