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Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and
cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are
fundamentally shaped by dialogue. Patrick Grant looks at the manner
in which dialogue informs and connects the personal, political, and
religious dimensions of human experience and how literacy is being
eroded through many factors, including advances in digital
technology. The book begins by tracing the history of evolved
communication skills and looks at ways in which interconnections
among tragedy, the limits of language, and the silence of abjection
contribute to an adequate understanding of dialogue. Looking at
examples such as “truth decay” in journalism and falling
literacy levels in school, alongside literary texts from Malory and
Shakespeare, Grant shows how literature and criticism embody the
essential values of dialogue. The maintenance of complex reading
and interpretive skills is recommended for the recuperation of
dialogue and for a better understanding of its fundamental
significance in the shaping of our personal and social lives.
Tapping into debates about the value of literature and the
humanities, and the challenges posed by digitalization, this book
will be of interest and significance to people working in a wide
range of subjects, including literary studies, communication
studies, digital humanities, social policy, and anthropology.
Combining literary criticism and theory with anthropology and
cognitive science, this highly relevant book argues that we are
fundamentally shaped by dialogue. Patrick Grant looks at the manner
in which dialogue informs and connects the personal, political, and
religious dimensions of human experience and how literacy is being
eroded through many factors, including advances in digital
technology. The book begins by tracing the history of evolved
communication skills and looks at ways in which interconnections
among tragedy, the limits of language, and the silence of abjection
contribute to an adequate understanding of dialogue. Looking at
examples such as "truth decay" in journalism and falling literacy
levels in school, alongside literary texts from Malory and
Shakespeare, Grant shows how literature and criticism embody the
essential values of dialogue. The maintenance of complex reading
and interpretive skills is recommended for the recuperation of
dialogue and for a better understanding of its fundamental
significance in the shaping of our personal and social lives.
Tapping into debates about the value of literature and the
humanities, and the challenges posed by digitalization, this book
will be of interest and significance to people working in a wide
range of subjects, including literary studies, communication
studies, digital humanities, social policy, and anthropology.
The Art of the Personal offers a strikingly original, meticulously
researched interpretation of what it means to be a person, and is
highly relevant for the times in which we live. The 238 excerpts
are selected from 21 books published by Patrick Grant during the
past 50 years. The excerpts reach across a wide range of topics,
including psychology, aesthetics, literary theory, Biblical
criticism, political theory, the Northern Ireland Troubles, Sri
Lanka, the place of religion in ethnic conflict, the perennial
philosophy and the history of spirituality, among others. The
excerpts are arranged under general headings, which are introduced
and interpreted by brief essays. This format invites an
interactive, dialogical response, as the book makes a case for an
understanding of the person as situated within the complex networks
of discourse by which its threshold status is constituted but not
defined, and to which the art of dialogue is indispensable.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a book that exposes silenced and invisible voices in
Colleges/Schools of Education. These voices of African immigrants
are seldom heard in serious educational quarters since most
foreign-born teacher educators try their very best to play by the
rules as immigrant minorities. However, they find themselves
between cultural continuity and cultural discontinuity. They are
pressured to do well by their families in their native countries;
but these pressures force them to forget home and think about
survival strategies in their new found home. Very often, they do
well and at tremendous costs! Additionally, they are expected to be
happy and endure all kinds of mistreatments with a smile because
they seem to have fewer survival options. On the one hand, they are
generally treated as Blacks; and as Blacks, they encounter racist
behaviours. On the other hand, they are treated as invisible,
primitive, and inferior Blacks who have nothing to share and who
are supposed to be seen and not heard. As a consequence, they
endure discrimination from both native born African Americans and
Whites in America. Interestingly, when they are confident, they are
labelled as arrogant, troublemaker, foreigner, chauvinistic, and so
on. When they are quiet, they are labelled as incompetent, timid,
naive, unprepared, and so on. The tendency is to forget that they
are human-beings with aspirations to do well and contribute to
their "new" society, that is, America. The critical question then
is, how can they do well or contribute to the advancement of their
new society if they are not given opportunities to learn, teach,
serve, or grow?
Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh's reputation grew and
developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident
between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and
complexity of Van Gogh's complete surviving correspondence presents
a formidable challenge to those who wish to read and analyze the
whole text as a literary work. Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once
an interpretive guide to Van Gogh's letters and a distillation of
the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters -
foremost among them the motifs of suffering, love, imagination, and
the ineffable. In this indispensable, synoptic view of the letters,
Patrick Grant makes the main lines of Vincent van Gogh's thinking
accessible and displays the arresting vividness of the well-known
artist's writing.
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