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