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 xiv
... 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 living in and around uni- versities ...
... 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 living in and around uni- versities ...
Side 4
... possible coherent and valuable forms of speech and thought and action . The major aim of this book will be to focus attention on this question , showing how certain writers have addressed it and made it available to us , and in this way ...
... possible coherent and valuable forms of speech and thought and action . The major aim of this book will be to focus attention on this question , showing how certain writers have addressed it and made it available to us , and in this way ...
Side 6
... possible to question one's language , even if it is truly evil : the language of Nazism or American racism , say , or the crazed jargon that adulates a leader , or a brutal ideology . For one thing , in what language can the person ...
... possible to question one's language , even if it is truly evil : the language of Nazism or American racism , say , or the crazed jargon that adulates a leader , or a brutal ideology . For one thing , in what language can the person ...
Side 7
... possible for her to achieve coherent forms of thought and speech , effective and meaningful action . I think that this is as deep a need as a human being has : a need of the mind or soul , the need for what we call meaning in life ...
... possible for her to achieve coherent forms of thought and speech , effective and meaningful action . I think that this is as deep a need as a human being has : a need of the mind or soul , the need for what we call meaning in life ...
Side 9
... possible coherent thought and action on the new conditions in which he finds himself , and to a large degree he succeeds in fashioning them . It is this process of imagining the self and the world , including other people , and ...
... possible coherent thought and action on the new conditions in which he finds himself , and to a large degree he succeeds in fashioning them . It is this process of imagining the self and the world , including other people , and ...
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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.