The Resource The place of imagination : Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity, Joseph R. Wiebe
The place of imagination : Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity, Joseph R. Wiebe
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- Summary
- Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places{u2014}to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to the mastery of cultural, social, or economic assumptions about our life in these places. Creation has its own integrity and demands that we confront it. In The Place of Imagination, Joseph R. Wiebe argues that this confrontation is precisely what shapes our moral capacity to respond to people and to places. Wiebe contends that Berry manifests this moral imagination most acutely in his fiction. Berry's fiction, however, does not portray an average community or even an ideal one. Instead, he depicts broken communities in broken places{u2014}sites and relations scarred by the routines of racial wounds and ecological harm. Yet, in the tracing of Berry's characters with place-based identities, Wiebe demonstrates the way in which Berry's fiction comes to embody Berry's own moral imagination. By joining these ambassadors of Berry's moral imagination in their fictive journeys, readers, too, can allow imagination to transform their affection, thereby restoring place as a facilitator of identity as well as hope for healed and whole communities. Loving place translates into loving people, which in turn transforms broken human narratives into restored lives rooted and ordered by their places. - From publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 262 pages
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McMaster University, 2013, entitled: Wendell Berry's imagination in place
- Contents
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- Part I. Moral imagination and community. Imagination: the poetics of local adaptation
- Affection: community, race, and place
- Style: Berry's fictional technique
- Part II. Biographies of belonging. Jack's mind: regret and the virtue of knowing
- Jayber's soul: the psychology of magnanimous despair
- Hannah's body: grief and the space of hopeless patience
- Isbn
- 9781481303866
- Label
- The place of imagination : Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity
- Title
- The place of imagination
- Title remainder
- Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity
- Statement of responsibility
- Joseph R. Wiebe
- Subject
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- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-
- Berry, Wendell, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Communities in literature
- Communities in literature
- 1900-1999
- Imagination in literature
- Imagination in literature
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- American fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places{u2014}to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to the mastery of cultural, social, or economic assumptions about our life in these places. Creation has its own integrity and demands that we confront it. In The Place of Imagination, Joseph R. Wiebe argues that this confrontation is precisely what shapes our moral capacity to respond to people and to places. Wiebe contends that Berry manifests this moral imagination most acutely in his fiction. Berry's fiction, however, does not portray an average community or even an ideal one. Instead, he depicts broken communities in broken places{u2014}sites and relations scarred by the routines of racial wounds and ecological harm. Yet, in the tracing of Berry's characters with place-based identities, Wiebe demonstrates the way in which Berry's fiction comes to embody Berry's own moral imagination. By joining these ambassadors of Berry's moral imagination in their fictive journeys, readers, too, can allow imagination to transform their affection, thereby restoring place as a facilitator of identity as well as hope for healed and whole communities. Loving place translates into loving people, which in turn transforms broken human narratives into restored lives rooted and ordered by their places. - From publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wiebe, Joseph R
- Dewey number
- 811/.54
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3552.E75
- LC item number
- Z97 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Berry, Wendell
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Imagination in literature
- Communities in literature
- American fiction
- Berry, Wendell
- American fiction
- Communities in literature
- Imagination in literature
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Label
- The place of imagination : Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity, Joseph R. Wiebe
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McMaster University, 2013, entitled: Wendell Berry's imagination in place
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. Moral imagination and community. Imagination: the poetics of local adaptation -- Affection: community, race, and place -- Style: Berry's fictional technique -- Part II. Biographies of belonging. Jack's mind: regret and the virtue of knowing -- Jayber's soul: the psychology of magnanimous despair -- Hannah's body: grief and the space of hopeless patience
- Control code
- 955541227
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- ix, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9781481303866
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)955541227
- Label
- The place of imagination : Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity, Joseph R. Wiebe
- Note
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McMaster University, 2013, entitled: Wendell Berry's imagination in place
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I. Moral imagination and community. Imagination: the poetics of local adaptation -- Affection: community, race, and place -- Style: Berry's fictional technique -- Part II. Biographies of belonging. Jack's mind: regret and the virtue of knowing -- Jayber's soul: the psychology of magnanimous despair -- Hannah's body: grief and the space of hopeless patience
- Control code
- 955541227
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- ix, 262 pages
- Isbn
- 9781481303866
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)955541227
Subject
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Berry, Wendell, 1934-
- Berry, Wendell, 1934- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Communities in literature
- Communities in literature
- 1900-1999
- Imagination in literature
- Imagination in literature
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Place (Philosophy) in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- American fiction
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