Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape future ones. These are the questions James Boyd White addresses in The Edge of Meaning, exploring each through its application to great works of Western culture—Huckleberry Finn, the Odyssey, and the paintings of Vermeer among them.
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Michelle Obama (People in the News)
On February 18, 2009, Michelle Obama turned the East Wingof the White House into a classroom by hosting a celebration of Black History Month. In an informal lecture to nearly two hundred sixth- and seventh-grade students from Washington, D.C., schools, Obama detailed the role the White House has
played in African American history. ... Michelle Obama’s slave ancestry is the most dramatic aspect of her family history.
This work presents over three dozen cross-stitch projects based on a theme of blue and white. Projects include a floral sampler, a ginger jar, cornflowers, a thistle, quilt block houses, moon stars, lilacs, and roses. With a few exceptions, stitchery designers toil away anonymously. Showcased here is the work of four cross-stitch professionals, all 37 of their projects executed in blue and white. In spite of the enforced two-color scheme, individual idiosyncrasies are apparent in choice of subject matter, use of style and mannerisms, and finishing touches.
Confusion reigns for characters and readers in the complicated seventh urban fantasy outing (after 2008's The Outlaw Demon Wails) for witch detective Rachel Morgan. Rachel's reputation is in tatters—to save humanity, she used powers that are considered evil—and she's still devastated by the mysterious death of her boyfriend six months earlier.
Don Delillo's White Noise (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise was immediately hailed as Don DeLillo's "breakout novel" when it first appeared in 1985. The novel entertains a wide array of compelling topics and concerns with consummate agility. Study this spot-on satire of post-war America.
