A01=James Boyd White
Author_James Boyd White
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226894805
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2003
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
