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 xi
... cultures , those complex symbolic and expressive practices ranging from music to politics , football to religion ... cultural contexts and working in different genres , address in significantly different ways the possibilities and dif ...
... cultures , those complex symbolic and expressive practices ranging from music to politics , football to religion ... cultural contexts and working in different genres , address in significantly different ways the possibilities and dif ...
Side xii
... cultures we inhabit , and the constraints imposed on us by nature as well ; that our engagement with these questions ... culture and nature and language , including the ways in which these constitute forces that act on us , changing our ...
... cultures we inhabit , and the constraints imposed on us by nature as well ; that our engagement with these questions ... culture and nature and language , including the ways in which these constitute forces that act on us , changing our ...
Side xiii
... culture , which require different ways of thinking and being , which he is , for the most part , remarkably able to achieve . At this point I begin a new sequence , meant to bring the problem home to you as reader , me as writer : I ...
... culture , which require different ways of thinking and being , which he is , for the most part , remarkably able to achieve . At this point I begin a new sequence , meant to bring the problem home to you as reader , me as writer : I ...
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... cultural context , as a boy growing up to adulthood under privileged circumstances in New England in the forties and fifties , as a man living in and around uni- versities ever since , in the West and Midwest , and as what we in Amer ...
... cultural context , as a boy growing up to adulthood under privileged circumstances in New England in the forties and fifties , as a man living in and around uni- versities ever since , in the West and Midwest , and as what we in Amer ...
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... culture and a social world and to the practices that make it go , I may be thought to suggest that the process to which I point is in some way childish , something we give up as we grow older . But that is not what I think at all . I ...
... culture and a social world and to the practices that make it go , I may be thought to suggest that the process to which I point is in some way childish , something we give up as we grow older . But that is not what I think at all . I ...
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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.