Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 09/02/2009 - 256 من الصفحات Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... Judgments—United States—Language. 3. Violence in literature. 4. Violence. I. Title. K213 .W495 2006 306. 44—dc22 2005032670 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Sabon Printed on acid ...
... though we are not sure; when it does come, it either confirms our judgment or sur- prises us by being different. And we look backwards as well as forwards, repeatedly going over in our minds what we have read 14 CHAPTER ONE.
... judgment, is in a sense enacted or performed in the very structure of the verse, which runs through the whole thing. If this pattern of the verse were continued without interruption, it would connect every part of the poem and its ...
... judgment; he asks how it is that the gluttonous in Purgatory can suffer the pangs of hunger when they have no need for food. Later he asks Adam what language he spoke in Eden, and how long he enjoyed the bliss of the garden before his ...
... judgments would accord perfectly with your own. How long could you read such a poem, and what would it mean to you while ... judgment that Dante exhibits and stimulates. It would be perfectly authoritarian. In the poem as composed, Dante ...
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