The place of imagination : Wendell Berry and the poetics of community, affection, and identity / Joseph R. Wiebe.

Author/creator Wiebe, Joseph R. author.
Format Book
PublicationWaco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2017]
Descriptionix, 262 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Part I. Moral imagination and community. Imagination: the poetics of local adaptation -- Affection: community, race, and place -- Style: Berry's fictional technique -- Part II. Biographies of belonging. Jack's mind: regret and the virtue of knowing -- Jayber's soul: the psychology of magnanimous despair -- Hannah's body: grief and the space of hopeless patience.
General noteBased on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--McMaster University, 2013, entitled: Wendell Berry's imagination in place.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 235-253) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN1481303864 hardcover
ISBN9781481303866 hardcover