The Edge of MeaningUniversity of Chicago Press, 2003 - 301 sider Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape future ones. These are the questions James Boyd White addresses in The Edge of Meaning, exploring each through its application to great works of Western culture—Huckleberry Finn, the Odyssey, and the paintings of Vermeer among them. In doing so, White creates a deeply moving and insightful book and presents an inspiring conception of mind, language, and the essence of living. |
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Side iv
... Herbert - The life of the law as a life of writing - The depth of meaning in Vermeer . ISBN 0-226-89481-9 ( cloth : alk . paper ) 1. Literature - History and criticism . I. Title . PN511.W59 2001 809 - dc21 00-012903 The paper used in ...
... Herbert - The life of the law as a life of writing - The depth of meaning in Vermeer . ISBN 0-226-89481-9 ( cloth : alk . paper ) 1. Literature - History and criticism . I. Title . PN511.W59 2001 809 - dc21 00-012903 The paper used in ...
Side ix
... PART III SEVEN Frost and Herbert : Poetry as Life 189 EIGHT The Life of the Law as a Life of Writing 221 NINE The Depth of Meaning in Vermeer 257 Acknowledgments Index 289 291 PREFACE Though we have no very good way of talking.
... PART III SEVEN Frost and Herbert : Poetry as Life 189 EIGHT The Life of the Law as a Life of Writing 221 NINE The Depth of Meaning in Vermeer 257 Acknowledgments Index 289 291 PREFACE Though we have no very good way of talking.
Side xiii
... Herbert ; in the way a particular law case is put together , as a set of questions and responses ; and in the paintings of Vermeer . The Phaedrus is the center of the book : everything before builds up to it , everything after builds ...
... Herbert ; in the way a particular law case is put together , as a set of questions and responses ; and in the paintings of Vermeer . The Phaedrus is the center of the book : everything before builds up to it , everything after builds ...
Side xiv
James Boyd White. which Thoreau , say , or Plato , or Herbert , engage in the larger process that is my subject . And , though this is not my major concern here , I certainly do not think that these works , separately or together ...
James Boyd White. which Thoreau , say , or Plato , or Herbert , engage in the larger process that is my subject . And , though this is not my major concern here , I certainly do not think that these works , separately or together ...
Side 9
... Herbert — of which we are readers ; ( 3 ) in this book itself , for I am also necessarily engaged , as a reader and writer , in the process that is my subject ; and ( 4 ) in the reader's act of reading it , for she too will be asking ...
... Herbert — of which we are readers ; ( 3 ) in this book itself , for I am also necessarily engaged , as a reader and writer , in the process that is my subject ; and ( 4 ) in the reader's act of reading it , for she too will be asking ...
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Acts of Hope argument atarpon Athena autar beauty begin caesura chapter clause coherent course court creating culture defined dialogue English erōs Eumaeus example experience face fact feeling gesture give Greek guage Herbert Homer Homeric Greek Huck Huck's Huckleberry Finn human Iliad imagining the world Isocrates kind language Lawrance Thompson lawyer limenos live look lover Lysias meaning mind myth nature nonlover noun object Odysseus once painting passage Penelope perhaps person Phaeacians Phaedrus philia phrase picture Plato poem poet poetry possible prayer present question reader relation Rembrandt Robert Frost school prayer seems sense sentence shape simply social Socrates soul speak speaker speech of Lysias story swineherd talk Telemachus tells tence things Thoreau thought tion transformation translation true truth trying understand verb Vermeer verse voice Walden whole woman woods words writing καὶ
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