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Playing the hand we are dealt = the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Playing the hand we are dealt/ Michael Jackson.
Reminder of title:	the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life /
Author:	Jackson, Michael.
Published:	New York :Berghahn Books, : 2025.,
Description:	1 online resource (271 p.)
Subject:	Books and reading. -
Online resource:	https://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/search/BERGHAHNB0002704.html
ISBN:	9781805397069

Playing the hand we are dealt = the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life /
Jackson, Michael.

Playing the hand we are dealtthe counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life /[electronic resource] :Michael Jackson. - 1st ed. - New York :Berghahn Books,2025. - 1 online resource (271 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Playing the hand we are dealt : the counterpoint of fate and freewill in literature and life -- Contents -- Prologue -- Part I: Precursors -- Chapter 1: Constellations -- Chapter 2: They Were Alive and They Spoke to Me -- Chapter 3: Aftereffects -- Chapter 4: Of Time and the River -- Chapter 5: Down and Out in Paris and London -- Chapter 6: 'The Being I Refer to as Me' -- Chapter 7: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't -- Chapter 8: Utopias -- Chapter 9: In Limbo -- Chapter 10: Down the Mine -- Chapter 11: Wheels Within Wheels -- Chapter 12: 'Something Tremendous Has Happened' -- Chapter 13: Illuminations -- Chapter 14: 'Like Somebody Else Was Once' -- Chapter 15: The Limits of Logos -- Chapter 16: The House of the Dead -- Chapter 17: The Shadow -- Chapter 18: Knights Errant -- Chapter 19: In the Footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen -- Chapter 20: Neither/Nor -- Chapter 21: Anecdote of the I-Beam -- Chapter 22: The Homeless Mind -- Chapter 23: Quicksand -- Chapter 24: Only Connect -- Chapter 25: Watermarks -- Chapter 26: Cat's Cradle -- Part II: Passages -- Chapter 27: Side by Side -- Chapter 28: La Forza del Destino -- Chapter 29: Save Me -- Chapter 30: Kind of Blue -- Chapter 31: Havanaise -- Chapter 32: The Story of the Man with Three Braids -- Chapter 33: The Remorseful Day -- Notes -- Index.

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The relationship between literature and life can be construed as a counterpoint of fate and freewill. Rather than equating fate to the 'hand we are dealt' which is reducible to the social or familial environments into which we are born, this book explores the idea of fate through the books that shape our lives and under whose influence we write. Writing in this sense is seen as beyond its utility of making meaning. It is a way of recovering agency in the face of overwhelming experiences. In juxtaposing factuality and fiction, the author makes a case for a radically empirical approach to human experience.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9781805397069Subjects--Topical Terms:

648068
Books and reading.

LC Class. No.: PN45

Dewey Class. No.: 801

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