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- catalog abstract ""How do you imagine the world, and yourself and others within it? How do you confront the constraints of language, the evils of your particular culture, the limits of your own mind? How do you use what you imagine to give meaning to your past experience and shape your expectations for the future? Such are the questions that drive The Edge of Meaning by the distinguished humanist and lawyer James Boyd White." "Addressing the most fundamental imaginative and intellectual activity of human life, this book presents an inspiring conception of an art of mind and language that enables us to confront the uncertainty and fluidity that are themselves the essence of human experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12262464.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""How do you imagine the world, and yourself and others within it? How do you confront the constraints of language, the evils of your particular culture, the limits of your own mind? How do you use what you imagine to give meaning to your past experience and shape your expectations for the future? Such are the questions that drive The Edge of Meaning by the distinguished humanist and lawyer James Boyd White." "Addressing the most fundamental imaginative and intellectual activity of human life, this book presents an inspiring conception of an art of mind and language that enables us to confront the uncertainty and fluidity that are themselves the essence of human experience."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Thoreau's Walden -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Odyssey -- Reading Greek -- Making meaning in the sentence -- The Phaedrus -- Frost and Herbert -- The life of the law as a life of writing -- The depth of meaning in Vermeer.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 301 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226894819 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "809 21".
- catalog subject "Literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN511 .W59 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Thoreau's Walden -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Odyssey -- Reading Greek -- Making meaning in the sentence -- The Phaedrus -- Frost and Herbert -- The life of the law as a life of writing -- The depth of meaning in Vermeer.".
- catalog title "The edge of meaning / James Boyd White.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".