The Edge of Meaning
Autor James Boyd Whiteen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 aug 2003
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226894805
ISBN-10: 0226894800
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 10 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226894800
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 10 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
James Boyd White is the Hart Wright Professor of Law, professor of English, and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. His many books include The Legal Imagination, Acts of Hope, and Justice as Translation, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
Cuprins
Preface
Introduction: Beyond Words
Part I
1. Thoreau's Walden: Sporting with Proud Reliance in the Fields of Air
2. Huckleberry Finn: Doing Whichever Come Handiest at the Time
3. The Odyssey: Living in a Land Transformed
Part II
4. Reading Greek: Autar ho ek limenos
5. Making Meaning in the Sentence
6. The Phaedrus: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Love
Part III
7. Frost and Herbert: Poetry as Life
8. The Life of the Law as a Life of Writing
9. The Depth of Meaning in Vermeer
Acknowledgments
Index
Introduction: Beyond Words
Part I
1. Thoreau's Walden: Sporting with Proud Reliance in the Fields of Air
2. Huckleberry Finn: Doing Whichever Come Handiest at the Time
3. The Odyssey: Living in a Land Transformed
Part II
4. Reading Greek: Autar ho ek limenos
5. Making Meaning in the Sentence
6. The Phaedrus: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Love
Part III
7. Frost and Herbert: Poetry as Life
8. The Life of the Law as a Life of Writing
9. The Depth of Meaning in Vermeer
Acknowledgments
Index