The Other Shore
Essays on Writers and Writing
In this book, ethnographer and poet Michael Jackson addresses the interplay between modes of writing, modes of understanding, and modes of being in the world. Drawing on literary, anthropological and autobiographical sources, he explores writing as a technics akin to ritual, oral storytelling, magic and meditation, that enables us to reach beyond the limits of everyday life and forge virtual relationships and imagined communities. Although Maurice Blanchot wrote of the impossibility of writing, the passion and paradox of literature lies in its attempt to achieve the impossible--a leap of faith that calls to mind the mystic's dark night of the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95482-3
- EAN: 9780520954823
- Produktnummer: 21596213
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'516 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Michael Jackson is an Anthropologist and Distinguished Visiting Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His many anthropological books include Existential Anthropology, The Palm at the End of the Mind, and Between One and One Another. He's the author and editor of over twenty books.
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