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 xii
... live . But it does manifest itself constantly in what we say and do ; not explicitly , but in our performances with lan- guage and each other . As my brief account suggests this process consists of a series of phases that fall into a ...
... live . But it does manifest itself constantly in what we say and do ; not explicitly , but in our performances with lan- guage and each other . As my brief account suggests this process consists of a series of phases that fall into a ...
Side xiv
... live . My hope is that the reader will find it valuable to compare his or her experience with my own , on the understanding that whatever value this book may have will lie as much in the reader's sense of difference as in any perceived ...
... live . My hope is that the reader will find it valuable to compare his or her experience with my own , on the understanding that whatever value this book may have will lie as much in the reader's sense of difference as in any perceived ...
Side 1
... live in your mem- ory — what do you think you could say about your experience of it ? Or take a picture you have seen , a self - portrait by Rembrandt , say , or the crows in the cornfields by Van Gogh , or perhaps the famous pic- ture ...
... live in your mem- ory — what do you think you could say about your experience of it ? Or take a picture you have seen , a self - portrait by Rembrandt , say , or the crows in the cornfields by Van Gogh , or perhaps the famous pic- ture ...
Side 4
... lives ; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land ; for if he has lived sincerely , it must have been in a distant land to me . Of the many things that can be said about this sentence let me here simply ...
... lives ; some such account as he would send to his kindred from a distant land ; for if he has lived sincerely , it must have been in a distant land to me . Of the many things that can be said about this sentence let me here simply ...
Side 5
... 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 source of frustration . Despite the claims of the institutions that make up much of 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 source of frustration . Despite the claims of the institutions that make up much of our ...
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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.