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Author Howe, Fanny.

Title The Wedding Dress : Meditations on Word and Life
Published CA : University of California Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (182 pages)
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
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 Ha
Analysis 20th century
art and literature
bewilderment
contemporary philosophy
doubt
existential
faith and doubt
faith and religion
female authors
gender issues
imagination
language
literary criticism
literary critics
literary essays
making art
meditations
memoir
motherhood
nonfiction essays
nonfiction
overcoming doubt
poetry
political perspective
political thought
power of language
power of the mind
race issues
racism
role of art
social justice
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153)
Notes English
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Subject Howe, Fanny -- Meditations
SUBJECT Howe, Fanny fast
Subject Perplexity (Philosophy) -- Meditations
Motherhood -- Meditations
Creative ability -- Meditations
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
POETRY -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Genre/Form Meditations
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003050706
ISBN 9780520937192
0520937198
0520236254
9780520236257
0520238400
9780520238404
9786612359712
6612359714