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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... course that education is not the only possible one but itself is partly shaped by my own social and cultural context , as a boy growing up to adulthood under privileged circumstances in New England in the forties and fifties , as a man ...
... course that education is not the only possible one but itself is partly shaped by my own social and cultural context , as a boy growing up to adulthood under privileged circumstances in New England in the forties and fifties , as a man ...
Side 1
... course volumes have been written in efforts to describe and interpret and understand , and I will in fact do some of that myself in what follows . But I want to begin by drawing attention to the simple , obvious , though sometimes ...
... course volumes have been written in efforts to describe and interpret and understand , and I will in fact do some of that myself in what follows . But I want to begin by drawing attention to the simple , obvious , though sometimes ...
Side 2
... course composed of words , poetry paradoxically has often much the same effect , carrying us to the place where our response to language is made , and where we can begin to see it and think about it . For poetry often makes us conscious ...
... course composed of words , poetry paradoxically has often much the same effect , carrying us to the place where our response to language is made , and where we can begin to see it and think about it . For poetry often makes us conscious ...
Side 4
... course , but as it is given us to see it — in parts , obscurely , with uncertainty , but seen nonetheless ; and that it is one of the functions of certain kinds of thought and art to bring us to this point , to help us see what we ...
... course , but as it is given us to see it — in parts , obscurely , with uncertainty , but seen nonetheless ; and that it is one of the functions of certain kinds of thought and art to bring us to this point , to help us see what we ...
Side 5
... course it is true in different degrees : some people seem to feel that almost everything they are and think can be expressed in the languages available to them ; others are painfully conscious of the ways in which language not only ...
... course it is true in different degrees : some people seem to feel that almost everything they are and think can be expressed in the languages available to them ; others are painfully conscious of the ways in which language not only ...
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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.