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The wedding dress : meditations on word and life / / Fanny Howe



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Autore: Howe Fanny Visualizza persona
Titolo: The wedding dress : meditations on word and life / / Fanny Howe Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.54
Soggetto topico: Perplexity (Philosophy)
Motherhood
Imagination
Creative ability
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century
art and literature
bewilderment
contemporary philosophy
doubt
existential
faith and doubt
faith and religion
female authors
gender issues
imagination
language
literary criticism
literary critics
literary essays
making art
meditations
memoir
motherhood
nonfiction essays
nonfiction
overcoming doubt
poetry
political perspective
political thought
power of language
power of the mind
race issues
racism
role of art
social justice
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bewilderment -- Fairies -- Immanence -- White Lines -- The Contemporary Logos -- Incubus Of The Forlorn -- Purgatory & Other Places -- Catholic -- Work And Love -- After "Prologue" -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: In times of great uncertainty, the urgency of the artist's task is only surpassed by its difficulty. Ours is such a time, and rising to the challenge, novelist and poet Fanny Howe suggests new and fruitful ways of thinking about both the artist's role and the condition of doubt. In these original meditations on bewilderment, motherhood, imagination, and art-making, Howe takes on conventional systems of belief and argues for another, brave way of proceeding. In the essays "Immanence" and "Work and Love" and those on writers such as Carmelite nun Edith Stein, French mystic Simone Weil, Thomas Hardy, and Ilona Karmel-who were particularly affected by political, philosophical, and existential events in the twentieth century--she directly engages questions of race, gender, religion, faith, language, and political thought and, in doing so, expands the field of the literary essay. A richly evocative memoir, "Seeing Is Believing," situates Howe's own domestic and political life in Boston in the late '60s and early '70s within the broader movement for survival and social justice in the face of that city's racism. Whether discussing Weil, Stein, Meister Eckhart, Saint Teresa, Samuel Beckett, or Lady Wilde, Howe writes with consummate authority and grace, turning bewilderment into a lens and a light for finding our way.
Titolo autorizzato: The wedding dress  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35971-1
9786612359712
0-520-93719-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809196303321
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