| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 211 pages). |
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| Series |
Sightline books |
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Sightline books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-211). |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Going Round in Circles; Chestnuts; Lists; Looking behind Nothing's Door; Pencil Marks; Kyklos; Level Crossing; Absent without Leave, Leaving without Absence; Relics; When Now Unstitches Then and Is in Turn Undone; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Briefcase; The Wandflower Ladder; A Private View; Zen's Bull in the Tread of Memory; Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text. |
| Summary |
The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of the ordinary unerringly gets to the heart of the matter. Bringing a diverse range of material into play, from fifteenth-century Japanese Zen Buddhism to how we look at paintings, and from the nature of a briefcase to the ancient nest-sites of gyrfalcons, Chris Arth. |
| Subject |
English essays -- Irish authors.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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English essays.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arthur, C.J. (Christopher John), 1955- On the shoreline of knowledge. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2012 9781609381127 (DLC) 2012004053 (OCoLC)777327452 |
| ISBN |
9781609381301 (electronic bk.) |
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1609381300 (electronic bk.) |
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