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  title info:
    title: Playing the hand we are dealt
    sub title: the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life
  name:
    name part: Jackson, Michael
    name part: 1940-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'hand we are dealt' which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as beyond its utility of making meaning. It is a way of recovering agency in the face of overwhelming experiences. In juxtaposing factuality and fiction, the author makes a case for a radically empirical approach to human experience.
  note: Michael Jackson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Fate and fatalism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Books and reading
  classification: PN45 .J226 2025
  classification: 801
  identifier: 9781805397045
  identifier: 1805397044
  identifier: 9781805397052
  identifier: 9781805397069
  identifier: 2024019487
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240613
    record change date: 20241122212415.6
    record identifier: in00005529284