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
... faces with particular intensity and richness the difficulties involved in this activity of the imagination . The works chosen range widely , from Thoreau's Walden to the paintings of Vermeer , from the Odyssey and Plato's Phaedrus to a ...
... faces with particular intensity and richness the difficulties involved in this activity of the imagination . The works chosen range widely , from Thoreau's Walden to the paintings of Vermeer , from the Odyssey and Plato's Phaedrus to a ...
Side xii
... face the adequacies and inadequacies of the languages we are given to speak , of the cultures we inhabit , and the constraints imposed on us by nature as well ; that our engagement with these questions is for the most part unconscious ...
... face the adequacies and inadequacies of the languages we are given to speak , of the cultures we inhabit , and the constraints imposed on us by nature as well ; that our engagement with these questions is for the most part unconscious ...
Side 4
... face and use language , about the way our minds work . This is most dif- ficult , both because the language we wish to think about is the instru- ment by which we do much of our thinking and because this language does much to shape our ...
... face and use language , about the way our minds work . This is most dif- ficult , both because the language we wish to think about is the instru- ment by which we do much of our thinking and because this language does much to shape our ...
Side 5
... face and gestures . For most of us this process continues in both its aspects all our lives , giving us on the one hand an increasing sense of competence — of un- derstanding and being understood — yet at the same time continuing as a ...
... face and gestures . For most of us this process continues in both its aspects all our lives , giving us on the one hand an increasing sense of competence — of un- derstanding and being understood — yet at the same time continuing as a ...
Side 7
... faces questions of two sorts , both of real im- portance . The first is whether — and how — what she is learning actu- ally works in her world , whether family or school or a larger commu- nity , to enable her to survive , to manage her ...
... faces questions of two sorts , both of real im- portance . The first is whether — and how — what she is learning actu- ally works in her world , whether family or school or a larger commu- nity , to enable her to survive , to manage her ...
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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.