Poetics of Naming
Published on 20. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
156 pages
978-0-88864-409-1 (ISBN)
Description
Literary historian and scholar George Melnyk engages the dynamic between truth, language, and personal identity. His intent is to take the reader to the limits of language and meaning, to face the wordless reality language tries to describe, and then to bring the reader back in a textual journey that confronts the personal and social dimensions of naming.
Reviews / Votes
"Melnyk achieves a mystical experience by stepping out of language. He returns with a changed sense of reality, metaphor, history, myth, time, space, and language. That moment outside language Melnyk names as poesis." -Robert Kroetsch "A remarkable accomplishment by a jack of all trades." Anne Burke, Prairie JournalMore details
Series
Edition
First edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edmonton
Canada
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88864-409-1 (9780888644091)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
George Melnyk is a cultural historian who has published some twenty books in a distinguished career, including works of philosophy, history, politics, and poetry. He teaches in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, where he specializes in Canadian cinema.