Word: walden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: Naturalists. First part of a series of essays on famous American naturalists examines the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau. Filmed around Walden Pond in Concord. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color...
...discover how to cars and speed our most wakeful hours-whatever we are doing-is the lack of Walden as a whole; it follows that its lack, for us who are reading, is epitomized is discovering what reading in a high sense is red, in particular what reading walden...
CAVELL STRUCTURES FOR ESSAY around his lesson in reading. His first chapter, "Words deals with the most fundamental aspects of approaching its Walden's meanings, its epic and religious conventions and the intensity of its expression. The second part, "Sentences," explores the way in which Thoreau's words work together to lead in into predictive conjecture. Their call to action challenges even our right passively to read them. "Portions," the third and final chapter, carries the reader from ". . . more or less formal question about the kind of book Walden is to matters more or less concerning its doctrine," that...
...fitting them into the author's philosophical framework. However, Cavell's own writing style also begs for a "higher reading," He leaves many ideas and even sentences unfinished and his disjointed logic often requires several readings of a given passage to unravel, Cavell tries to discover how to read Walden "in the high areas." The experience should ideally recreate the life in Walden, a difficult task which requires losing oneself through reading in order to rebuild oneself...
...work, though it is written in a "language dead to degenerate times." He tries to shake our belief that we no longer need a book to tell our lost nation how to live. Cavell can be thoroughly confusing at times, but at his best he provocatively illuminates both Walden and Thoreau...