Research Catalog

Title

Everywhere being is dancing : twenty pieces of thinking / Robert Bringhurst.

Author

Bringhurst, Robert

Publication

Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press, c2007.

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Details

Description

345 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Language and languages
• Indians of North America
• Oral tradition
• Poetry > History and criticism
• Counterpoint
• Ecology
• Mythology
• Langage et langues
• Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord
• Tradition orale
• Poésie > Histoire et critique
• Contrepoint
• Écologie
• Mythologie
• Language
• Indians, North American

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Includes text in Chinese, German, Greek, Haida, Navajo, Russian, and Tlingit.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[Part] 1. Everywhere being is dancing, knowing is known ; Singing with the frogs: the theory and practice of literary polyphony ; The meaning of mythology ; What is found in translation -- [pt.] 2. The philosophy of poetry and the trashing of Doctor Empedokles ; To tell the truth by lying: Gorgias the Sicilian and a theory you can't refuse ; The fragments of Parmenides: the poetry of philosophy and the fate of the university ; Raven's wine cup -- [pt.] 3. Boats is saintlier than captains: thirteen ways of looking at morality, language and design ; Licking the lips with a forked tongue ; The typographic mind -- [pt.] 4. Into the absolute of nature: the face of Joan Miró ̤; The story and the orphan: the narrative art of Elizabeth Nyman ; A piece of bread, a loaf of vision: the art of Alice Kane ; A poet and a war ; The critic in the rain -- [pt.] 5. The origin of mind ; Being where we are: the art of overhearing Charlie Mitchell's prayer ; It used to be I sang them: Big Charlie and the origin of horses ; Jumping from the train: how and why to read a work of Haida oral literature.

ISBN

• 9781554470440 (pbk.)
• 1554470447 (pbk.)
• 9781554470471 (bound)
• 1554470471 (bound)

OCLC

• 156889921
• SCSB-11598531

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library