Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another, and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.... The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthorne's Fiction - Stran 17avtor: Darrel Abel - 1988 - 324 straniOmejen predogled - O knjigi
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1915 - 390 strani
...food for, thought, a portion of which shall lend its wisdom to a moral,'' and be shaped into a figure. Amid the seeming confusion of 'our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a_ system, and systems to one another, and to a whole, that by stepping aside for a moment a man exposes... | |
| Robert William Chambers - 1923 - 1250 strani
...a good night's rest to Wakefield! g confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely :d to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, jping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk ig his place forever. Like Wakefield,... | |
| Lawrence Henry Conrad - 1927 - 304 strani
...food for thought, a portion of which shall lend its wisdom to a moral, and be shaped into a figure. Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe. CHAPTER VIII THE HEART OF THE... | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1982 - 1546 strani
...food for thought, a portion of which shall lend its wisdom to a moral; and be shaped into a figure. Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe. The Ambitious Guest ONE September... | |
| Richard H. Brodhead - 1990 - 267 strani
...of a fact of our condition caught in the clarity of a limiting case. Hawthorne concludes the tale: Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe. 35 The end of Marcher's adventure,... | |
| Richard P. Blackmur - 1989 - 312 strani
...us from falling from ourselves. Is not this what Hawthorne is suggesting at the end of "Wakefield"? Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe. In Hawthorne people are constantly... | |
| Leona Toker - 1989 - 266 strani
...into which Hawthorne transformed his somewhat sordid middle-class Londoner by the name of Wakefield: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe."29 Humbert has led Dolly too... | |
| Dana Brand - 1991 - 268 strani
...inadequate a summation to the story as the moral of "The Man of the Crowd." The narrator observes that: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world,...himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe" (9:i40). Just as the narrator... | |
| Milton R. Stern - 1991 - 224 strani
...fiction, reveal the counterthrusts within the thematic current. 1n "Wakefield," the moral is explicit: "Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely ad(usted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment,... | |
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