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The wedding dress : meditations on word and life / Fanny Howe.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Howe, Fanny.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Perplexity (Philosophy)--Meditations.
- Perplexity (Philosophy).
- Motherhood--Meditations.
- Motherhood.
- Imagination--Meditations.
- Imagination.
- Creative ability--Meditations.
- Creative ability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786612359712
- 9781282359710
- 1282359711
- 9780520937192
- 0520937198
- OCLC:
- 773565088
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