05043nam 2201117 a 450 991082345880332120200520144314.00-520-95482-310.1525/9780520954823(CKB)2550000001038563(EBL)1114903(OCoLC)825978146(SSID)ssj0000820194(PQKBManifestationID)11524051(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820194(PQKBWorkID)10857651(PQKB)10280653(StDuBDS)EDZ0000173328(OCoLC)828736046(MdBmJHUP)muse31117(DE-B1597)520699(OCoLC)1041923831(DE-B1597)9780520954823(Au-PeEL)EBL1114903(CaPaEBR)ebr10648951(CaONFJC)MIL428869(MiAaPQ)EBC1114903(EXLCZ)99255000000103856320120730d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe other shore[electronic resource] essays on writers and writing /Michael JacksonBerkeley, Calif. University of California Press20131 online resource (218 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27526-8 0-520-27524-1 Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1.The Other Shore -- 2. The Red Road -- 3. Kindred Spirits -- 4. Writing under the Influence -- 5. A Typewriter Collecting Dust -- 6. Writing in Limbo -- 7. The Magical Power of Words -- 8. Flights of Fancy -- 9. Writing Fellowship -- 10. There Go I -- 11. Love Letters -- 12. Writing for Bare Life -- 13. Writing So As Not to Die -- 14. Chinese Boxes -- 15. The Writing on the Wall -- 16. Writing out of the Blue -- 17. A Storyteller's Story -- 18. Writing in the Dark -- 19. Writing in the Zone -- 20. Writing, Naturally -- 21. Writing Workshop -- 22. The Books in My Life -- 23. Writing Utopia -- 24. Writing in Search of Lost Time -- 25. Writing about Writers -- 26. Writing in Ruins -- 27. Writing as a Way of Life -- Notes -- AcknowledgmentsIn this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the soul, unrequited love, nostalgic or utopian longing, and the ethnographer's attempt to know the world from the standpoint of others, to put himself or herself in their place. Every writer, whether of ethnography, poetry, or fiction, imagines that his or her own experiences echo the experiences of others, and that despite the need for isolation and silence his or her work consummates a relationship with them.American fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literatureHistory and criticismEnglish languageWritingAuthorshipanthropology.art.artists.authors.dark night of the soul.empathy.engaging.ethnographer.ethnography.fiction writers.imagination.impossibility of writing.leap of faith.life experiences.literary criticism.literary.literature.lively.longing.magic.meditation.modes of understanding.modes of writing.modes.nostalgia.oral storytelling.poet.poetry.relationship.ritual.social science.students and teachers.unrequited love.utopia.worldliness.writing.American fictionHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.English languageWriting.Authorship.813/.509Jackson Michael1940-960686MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823458803321The other shore4093869UNINA