| #551038 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2001-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.68 x5.51l,.78 | File Name: 0691070768 | 304 pages |
||20 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| How to Read the World|By Customer|At the outset, I must say how shocked I am to be the second person reviewing this book. Considering how influential this book has been on my own way of reading, not to mention my mode of living, I am sorry to feel so alone in loving it.
Elaine Scarry's "Dreaming by the Book" is an expansion of an earlier essay she published in Re|From Publishers Weekly|Best known for her 1985 study of torture and physical pain, The Body in Pain, and for her much-publicized contention, first expressed in the New York of Books, that electromagnetic interference caused the crash of TWA Flight 800, Harvar
Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in which their creations will get made--the back-lit tissue of the human brain. In...
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