The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity

ISBN-13: 9781481303866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Joseph R. Wiebe

Opis

Loving place translates into loving people, which in turn transforms broken human narratives into restored lives rooted and ordered by their places.--Kathryn Bradford Heidelberger "The Christian Century"

Spis treści

• Introduction
• PART I. Moral Imagination and Community
• 1. Imagination: The Poetics of Local Adaptation
• 2. Affection: Community, Race, and Place
• 3. Style: Berry's Fictional Technique
• PART II. Biographies of Belonging
• 4. Jack's Mind: Regret and the Virtue of Knowing
• 5. Jayber's Soul: The Psychology of Magnanimous Despair
• 6. Hannah's Body: Grief and the Space of Hopeless Patience
• Conclusion