Fiction And The Weave Of Life
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Author | : John Gibson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2007-12-06 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199299528 |
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Philosophers have struggled to explain how literary fiction can be such an important source of insight into the human condition. John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world.
Author | : John Gibson |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007-12-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191538485 |
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Literature is a source of understanding and insight into the human condition. Yet ever since Aristotle, philosophers have struggled to provide a plausible account of how this can be the case. For surely the fictionality - the sheer invented character - of the literary work means that literature concerns itself not with the real world but with other worlds - what are commonly called fictional worlds. How is it, then, that fictions can tell us something of consequence about reality? In Fiction and the Weave of Life, John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and life, and shows that literature's great cultural and cognitive value is inseparable from its fictionality and inventiveness.
Author | : John Gibson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780191714900 |
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In 'Fiction and the Weave of Life', John Gibson offers a novel and intriguing account of the relationship between literature and everyday life, and shows how literature can give us an understanding of our world without literally being about our world.
Author | : Urmila Pawar |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2009-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231520573 |
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"My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us." Activist and award-winning writer Urmila Pawar recounts three generations of Dalit women who struggled to overcome the burden of their caste. Dalits, or untouchables, make up India's poorest class. Forbidden from performing anything but the most undesirable and unsanitary duties, for years Dalits were believed to be racially inferior and polluted by nature and were therefore forced to live in isolated communities. Pawar grew up on the rugged Konkan coast, near Mumbai, where the Mahar Dalits were housed in the center of the village so the upper castes could summon them at any time. As Pawar writes, "the community grew up with a sense of perpetual insecurity, fearing that they could be attacked from all four sides in times of conflict. That is why there has always been a tendency in our people to shrink within ourselves like a tortoise and proceed at a snail's pace." Pawar eventually left Konkan for Mumbai, where she fought for Dalit rights and became a major figure in the Dalit literary movement. Though she writes in Marathi, she has found fame in all of India. In this frank and intimate memoir, Pawar not only shares her tireless effort to surmount hideous personal tragedy but also conveys the excitement of an awakening consciousness during a time of profound political and social change.
Author | : William H. Gass |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780879232542 |
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Essays by William H. Gass.
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Author | : Rosanne Parry |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-06-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375871357 |
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Rosanne Parry, acclaimed author of A Wolf Called Wander and Heart of a Shepherd, shines a light on Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s, a time of critical cultural upheaval. Pearl has always dreamed of hunting whales, just like her father. Of taking to the sea in their eight-man canoe, standing at the prow with a harpoon, and waiting for a whale to lift its barnacle-speckled head as it offers its life for the life of the tribe. But now that can never be. Pearl's father was lost on the last hunt, and the whales hide from the great steam-powered ships carrying harpoon cannons, which harvest not one but dozens of whales from the ocean. With the whales gone, Pearl's people, the Makah, struggle to survive as Pearl searches for ways to preserve their stories and skills.
Author | : Anne Nesbet |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2016-09-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763691801 |
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Slip behind the Iron Curtain into a world of smoke, secrets, and lies in this stunning novel where someone is always listening and nothing is as it seems. Noah Keller has a pretty normal life, until one wild afternoon when his parents pick him up from school and head straight for the airport, telling him on the ride that his name isn’t really Noah and he didn’t really just turn eleven in March. And he can’t even ask them why — not because of his Astonishing Stutter, but because asking questions is against the newly instated rules. (Rule Number Two: Don’t talk about serious things indoors, because Rule Number One: They will always be listening). As Noah—now “Jonah Brown”—and his parents head behind the Iron Curtain into East Berlin, the rules and secrets begin to pile up so quickly that he can hardly keep track of the questions bubbling up inside him: Who, exactly, is listening — and why? When did his mother become fluent in so many languages? And what really happened to the parents of his only friend, Cloud-Claudia, the lonely girl who lives downstairs? In an intricately plotted novel full of espionage and intrigue, friendship and family, Anne Nesbet cracks history wide open and gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be an outsider in a world that’s impossible to understand.
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Author | : E. M. Broner |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780253203540 |
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Fifteen women from different lands and cultures share their stories and their lives as they come together in the Old City of Jerusalem.