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
... Huckleberry Finn - The Odyssey - Reading Greek - Making meaning in the sen- tence — The Phaedrus - Frost and 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 ) ...
... Huckleberry Finn - The Odyssey - Reading Greek - Making meaning in the sen- tence — The Phaedrus - Frost and 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 ) ...
Side ix
... Huckleberry Finn : Doing Whichever Come Handiest at the Time 28 THREE The Odyssey : Living in a Land Transformed 50 PART II FOUR Reading Greek : Autar ho ek limenos 69 FIVE Making Meaning in the Sentence 104 SIX The Phaedrus ...
... Huckleberry Finn : Doing Whichever Come Handiest at the Time 28 THREE The Odyssey : Living in a Land Transformed 50 PART II FOUR Reading Greek : Autar ho ek limenos 69 FIVE Making Meaning in the Sentence 104 SIX The Phaedrus ...
Side xiii
... Huckleberry Finn , who is equally insistent on making sense of the world and himself , but is in the end incapable of comprehending the externally determined , inwardly validated , fact of race , which makes the most important event of ...
... Huckleberry Finn , who is equally insistent on making sense of the world and himself , but is in the end incapable of comprehending the externally determined , inwardly validated , fact of race , which makes the most important event of ...
Side 8
... Huckleberry Finn , telling us the story of his life as a marginal figure , living half in the woods with Pap , half in ... Huck lives this life and tells us about it he desperately seeks to understand his natural and social worlds — to ...
... Huckleberry Finn , telling us the story of his life as a marginal figure , living half in the woods with Pap , half in ... Huck lives this life and tells us about it he desperately seeks to understand his natural and social worlds — to ...
Side 9
... Huckleberry Finn and Odysseus , are pre- sented as engaged in this process ; ( 2 ) in the text that is composed by the actual human author — Homer or Mark Twain , say , or Frost or Herbert — of which we are readers ; ( 3 ) in this book ...
... Huckleberry Finn and Odysseus , are pre- sented as engaged in this process ; ( 2 ) in the text that is composed by the actual human author — Homer or Mark Twain , say , or Frost or Herbert — of which we are readers ; ( 3 ) in this book ...
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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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