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Poetics of Naming
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.
About the Author
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.
Reviews
"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 Journal
"A remarkable accomplishment by a jack of all trades." Anne Burke, Prairie Journal
Paperback / softback | |
October 20, 2003 | |
9780888644091 | |
English | |
156 | |
9.00 Inches (US) | |
6.00 Inches (US) | |
0.38 Inches (US) | |
.44 Pounds (US) | |
$38.99 USD, £24.99 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
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Great Canadian Film Directors
edited by George Melnyk
Jun 2007
- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
$38.99 USD
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The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two
George Melnyk
Nov 1999
- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
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The Literary History of Alberta Volume One
George Melnyk
Apr 1998
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Apostrophes VII
E.D. Blodgett
Apr 2011
- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
$19.95 USD
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Demeter Goes Skydiving
Susan McCaslin
Mar 2011
- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
$19.95 USD
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Kat Among the Tigers
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Feb 2011
- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
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All the Feels / Tous les sens
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- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
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- The University of Alberta Press, an imprint of University of Alberta Press
$12.99 USD
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