The Wedding Dress : Meditations on Word and Life.

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Author / Creator:Howe, Fanny.
Imprint:CA : University of California Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (182 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11123385
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ISBN:9780520937192
0520937198
0520236254
9780520236257
0520238400
9780520238404
1282359711
9781282359710
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153).
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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.
Other form:Print version: Howe, Fanny. Wedding Dress : Meditations on Word and Life. CA : University of California Press, ©2003 9780520236257