On the shoreline of knowledge : Irish wanderings / / Chris Arthur
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| Autore: |
Arthur C. J (Christopher John), <1955->
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| Titolo: |
On the shoreline of knowledge : Irish wanderings / / Chris Arthur
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 808.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | English essays - Irish authors |
| English literature | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Text |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | On the shoreline of knowledge |
| ISBN: | 9781609381301 |
| 1609381300 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958372503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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