Main entry:

Bringhurst, Robert, author.

Title & Author:

The tree of meaning : thirteen talks / Robert Bringhurst.

Publication:

Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press, 2006.

Description:

329 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The polyhistorical mind -- The persistence of poetry and the destruction of the world -- The vocation of being, the text of the whole -- Native American oral literatures and the unity of the humanities -- The audible light in the eyes -- The voice in the mirror -- Poetry and thinking -- The tree of meaning and the work of ecological linguistics -- The humanity of speaking -- Prosodies of meaning : literary form in Native North America -- Wild language -- Finding home : the legacy of Bill Reid -- The silence that is not poetry, and the silence that is.

ISBN:

1554470242 (pbk.) :
9781554470242
1554470250 (bound) :
9781554470259

Subject:

Language and languages.
Oral tradition.
Poetry History and criticism.
Ecology.
Indigenous peoples Canada.
Native peoples Canada.
Langage et langues.
Peuples autochtones Canada.
Tradition orale.
Poésie Histoire et critique.
Environnement.
languages (study discipline)
language (general communication)
environment (earth sciences concept)
Indigenous peoples
Poetry
Canada

Form/genre:

Lectures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293755
Call No.: BIB 238921
Status: Available