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The Inner Word in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
John Arthos
This intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius, or “inner word,” serves as an indispensable guide to and reference for hermeneutic theory. John Arthos here gives a full exposition and interpretation of the medieval doctrine of the inner word, long one of the most challenging ideas in Gadamer’s Truth and Method. The scholastic idea of a word that is thought but not yet spoken served Augustine as an analogy for the procession of the Trinity, served Aquinas as the medium between divine ideas and human expression, and serves Gadamer as an…
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Shaped by Stories
The Ethical Power of Narratives
Marshall Gregory
In his latest book, Marshall Gregory begins with the premise that our lives are saturated with stories, ranging from magazines, books, films, television, and blogs to the words spoken by politicians, pastors, and teachers. He then explores the ethical implications of this universal human obsession with narratives. Through careful readings of Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Grave” and Thurber’s “The Catbird Seat,” as well as David Copperfield, Wuthering Heights, and other works, Gregory asks (and answers) the question: How do the stories we absorb in our daily lives influence the kinds of persons we turn out to be?
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Poetry and Fiction Brochure Online
The University of Notre Dame Press partners with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame to publish the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry winners. In addition, the Press collaborates with the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame to support the work of emerging Latino/a poets with the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
We are pleased to offer the books in these series, as well as other fine poetry and fiction titles, in this brochure: Poetry & Fiction Brochure. Some of the books are offered…
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