Research Catalog

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Description

1. 284 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

1. "In this wide-ranging and erudite book, Thomas Harrison gives a panoramic account of the many meanings and valences of bridges in human culture. He considers the impulse to build bridges in early human civilizations and the way bridges linked the transience of human life and the eternal realm of the divine. He visits historical bridges over which people have gone to battle, discusses metaphorical bridges, such as those in musical composition, and probes the many connections between bridges and death, and bridges and love. Throughout, Harrison illustrates his discussions with a wide range of references from art, poetry, and philosophy, mostly though not exclusively from the European tradition, reaching back to antiquity"--

Subject

1. Bridges in literature
2. Bridges in art
3. Bridges > Social aspects
4. Bridges > Religious aspects
5. Bridges > History
6. Bridges

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. The Great Bridge-Building of God -- Living on the Bridge -- Musical Bridges -- Bridge Brothers and Foes -- Word Bridges -- The Bridge as Gallows -- Nietzsche's Bridges -- Sea Bridges and Selves -- Bridged Disconnection

Call number

1. JFE 21-3095

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Harrison, Thomas J., 1955- author.

Title

1. Of bridges : a poetic and philosophical account / Thomas Harrison.

Publisher

1. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9780226735320

LCCN

1. 2020032941

ISBN

1. 9780226735290 hardcover
2. 022673529X hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 21-3095