The Place of Imagination

The Place of Imagination
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1481303864
ISBN-13 : 9781481303866
Rating : 4/5 (866 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Place of Imagination by : Joseph R. Wiebe

Download or read book The Place of Imagination written by Joseph R. Wiebe and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places--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--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.


The Place of Imagination Related Books

The Place of Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Joseph R. Wiebe
Categories: American fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Wendell Berry teaches us to love our places--to pay careful attention to where we are, to look beyond and within, and to live in ways that are not captive to th
Travel and Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Dr Garth Lean
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bringing together geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visual researchers, archaeologists, heritage researchers, lite
Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: Henry Jenkins
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-02-04 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might
The Bioregional Imagination
Language: en
Pages: 455
Authors: Cheryll Glotfelty
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bioregionalism is an innovative way of thinking about place and planet from an ecological perspective. Although bioregional ideas occur regularly in ecocritical
Imagination in Educational Theory and Practice
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Robert Fitzgerald
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-16 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Inspired by papers developed for the 6th International Conference on Imagination and Education: Imaginative Practice, Imaginative Inquiry (Canberra, Australia,