The Edge of Meaning
by James Boyd White
University of Chicago Press, 2001
Cloth: 978-0-226-89481-2 | Paper: 978-0-226-89480-5
Library of Congress Classification PN511.W59 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 809
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
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