03228nam 2200613Ia 450 991095837250332120240516214158.097816093813011609381300(CKB)2670000000234747(EBL)990879(OCoLC)821725650(SSID)ssj0000713590(PQKBManifestationID)11420933(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000713590(PQKBWorkID)10658345(PQKB)11573765(MiAaPQ)EBC990879(OCoLC)809043371(MdBmJHUP)muse18860(Au-PeEL)EBL990879(CaPaEBR)ebr10590984(Perlego)2962154(EXLCZ)99267000000023474720120209d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOn the shoreline of knowledge Irish wanderings /Chris Arthur1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20121 online resourceSightline books9781609381127 1609381122 Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Introduction: Going Round in Circles; Chestnuts; Lists; Looking behind Nothing's Door; Pencil Marks; Kyklos; Level Crossing; Absent without Leave, Leaving without Absence; Relics; When Now Unstitches Then and Is in Turn Undone; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Briefcase; The Wandflower Ladder; A Private View; Zen's Bull in the Tread of Memory; Acknowledgments; Notes on the TextThe carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of the ordinary unerringly gets to the heart of the matter. Bringing a diverse range of material into play, from fifteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhism to how we look at paintings, and from the nature of a briefcase to the ancient nest-sites of gyrfalcons, Chris Arthur reveals the extraordinary dimensions woven invisibly into the ordinary things around us. Compared to Loren Eiseley, George Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Aldo Leopold, V. S. Naipaul, W. G. Sebald, W. B. Yeats, and other literary luminaries, he is a master essayist whose work has quietly been gathering an impressive cargo of critical acclaim. Arthur speaks with an Irish accent, rooting the book in his own unique vision of the world, but he addresses elemental issues of life and death, love and loss, that circle the world and entwine us all. Sightline books.English essaysIrish authorsEnglish literatureEnglish essaysIrish authors.English literature.808.4Arthur C. J(Christopher John),1955-1810932MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910958372503321On the shoreline of knowledge4362495UNINA