The edge of meaning
"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
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226894812, 9780226894805, 0226894819, 0226894800
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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