Living in language : the literary word at work in the world /
In Living in Language, David Bosworth makes a compelling case for the power and relevance of the literary imagination throughout history. In a series of essays both lyrical and analytical, he examines how certain works have engaged the most pressing problems of their authors' ages even as they...
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Eugene, Oregon :
Front Porch Republic Books, an imprint of Wipf & Stock Publishers
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Living in langauge : a reply
- Mythos-minded thinking
- The most precious square of sense : in praise of Shakespeare's 'politics'
- Saving the appearances : John Ford's rescripting of the American mythos
- Two sides of a tortoise : on Herman Melville and Charles Dickens
- In the beginning : Adam and Eve reconsidered
- A prescription for contemporary fiction : Including a sermonette on aesthetics, a psalm to the senses, and an ethical sucker punch (to arrive disguised by a political joke)
- Real and fake accounts : fiction in the age of the Internet
- Toward a literature of awe :
- Phoenix? : an inquiry into the art of uncertainty.