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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... Plato's Phaedrus to a modern law case . One of the points of this diver- sity is to make it easier for us to see , and begin to analyze , the process at work in all of them ; another is to begin to show how different people , located in ...
... Plato's Phaedrus to a modern law case . One of the points of this diver- sity is to make it easier for us to see , and begin to analyze , the process at work in all of them ; another is to begin to show how different people , located in ...
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... Plato's Phaedrus , perhaps as rich and challenging a treatment of the issues that concern us as any in Western literature , and do so with attention both to its Greek and to the kind of experience offered by its sentences . Finally , in ...
... Plato's Phaedrus , perhaps as rich and challenging a treatment of the issues that concern us as any in Western literature , and do so with attention both to its Greek and to the kind of experience offered by its sentences . Finally , in ...
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... Plato , nor even " European , " and for much the same reason : Greece did not know " race " as we do and Europe did not then exist . And these writers are " dead " only if we fail to give them life . But they are all written by men ...
... Plato , nor even " European , " and for much the same reason : Greece did not know " race " as we do and Europe did not then exist . And these writers are " dead " only if we fail to give them life . But they are all written by men ...
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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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Side 2 - The Sick Rose O rose, thou art sick; The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.