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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... meaning as I have defined it above , namely , whether we can find or make an ade- quate way of imagining the world , and the self and others within it ; that to ask this question is to involve us in trying to respond to it , which in ...
... meaning as I have defined it above , namely , whether we can find or make an ade- quate way of imagining the world , and the self and others within it ; that to ask this question is to involve us in trying to respond to it , which in ...
Side 2
... meaning , for familiar and routine uses of lan- guage . But it is true I think of poetry more generally . Think of this well- known short poem by Blake , a favorite of many and apparently so simple : O Rose , thou art sick ! The ...
... meaning , for familiar and routine uses of lan- guage . But it is true I think of poetry more generally . Think of this well- known short poem by Blake , a favorite of many and apparently so simple : O Rose , thou art sick ! The ...
Side 3
... meaning " of the words but in the sounds they make together , in the significance of a pattern established and broken . Or listen to the sound of the vowels : all those Os and is , until we get at last an O and I together in " joy ...
... meaning " of the words but in the sounds they make together , in the significance of a pattern established and broken . Or listen to the sound of the vowels : all those Os and is , until we get at last an O and I together in " joy ...
Side 7
... meaning in life . When it becomes clear that there is no way of meeting it , a person may die , either by simply withering away or by suicide . I think here of Ajax , in Sophocles ' play of that name . One of the very greatest of the ...
... meaning in life . When it becomes clear that there is no way of meeting it , a person may die , either by simply withering away or by suicide . I think here of Ajax , in Sophocles ' play of that name . One of the very greatest of the ...
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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.