Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 páginas Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... Desire for Meaning The role of the reader in making meaning ; the note on the icebox ; the statute ; Frost's " Road Not Taken ” again ; three forms of the desire for meaning ; Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 ; the judicial opinion ; desires not ...
... Desire for Meaning in Literature and Law , " Current Legal Problems 53 ( 2000 ) : 131 ; part of chapter 4 was given at a conference on law and lit- erature held at University College London and published as “ Writing and Reading in ...
... desires without any attention to their larger meaning for the individual or the community ; our repeated insistence on an inherent difference between " us " and those " others " who are different , across a wide range of familiar ...
... desires to use and sub- mit to it? Can we ourselves attain speech of the second kind—speech that comes from the center of the person, and is addressed to the center of its audience; speech worthy of real attention; speech upon which ...
... desire to know and understand, should be consigned to the Inferno? As readers we necessarily feel that the persis- tent questioning of Dante the traveler must present him (and us) with real dangers in a universe that is so evidently ...
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