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

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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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