The edge of meaning
By: James Boyd White.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thoreau's Walden; title: Huckleberry Finn; title: The Odyssey; title: Reading Greek; title: Making meaning in the sentence; title: The Phaedrus; title: Frost and Herbert; title: The life of the law as a life of writing; title: The depth of meaning in Vermeer.