The Edge of Meaning by James Boyd White - 9780226894812
The University of Chicago Press
The Edge of MeaningAuthor(s): James Boyd White\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226894812, 978-0226894812\nSynopsis\nHow 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. With the delicacy, range and style for which he is known, White brings these questions to a series of great works from Western culture. These provocative discussions reveal different kinds of language - from words to brushstrokes - that both enable and constrain our understanding. These include Thoreau's \""Walden\"", Twain's \""Huckleberry Finn\"", Homer's \""Odyssey\"", a.
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