Don Gifford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Gifford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Gifford |
| SIGNATURE | GIFFORD D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zones of Re-membering: Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness
Don Gifford in Zones of Re-membering shows clearly, thoughtfully, yet entertainingly how no one explanation will account for the depth and complexity of human experience and its grounding in Memory. Because consciousness is a function of Memory, "life without Memory is no life at all" as Alzheimer's all too frequently demonstrates. Both our individual and collective Memory is stored in the arts, he contends, which in turn provide a way of knowing…
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984
This book examines in what way our perception of ourselves and our natural environment has changed over the past 200 years. In his history of everyday life, the author draws on a wealth of sources for illustration: 18th-century natural science, modern technology and the new physics, and the arts
Joyce and the Law of the Father
Joyce Annotated: Notes for 'Dubliners' and 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
In James Joyce's early work, as in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden significances in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man would require an encyclopedic knowledge of life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dublin such as few readers possess. Now this substantially revised and expanded edition of Don Gifford…
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984
This book examines in what way our perception of ourselves and our natural environment has changed over the past 200 years. In his history of everyday life, the author draws on a wealth of sources for illustration: 18th-century natural science, modern technology and the new physics, and the arts
Joyce Annotated: Notes for 'Dubliners' and 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
In James Joyce's early work, as in Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, meanings are often concealed in obscure allusions and details of veiled suggestive power. Consistent recognition of these hidden significances in Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man would require an encyclopedic knowledge of life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Dublin such as few readers possess. Now this substantially revised and expanded edition of Don Gifford…
Joyce and the Law of the Father
The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984
This book examines in what way our perception of ourselves and our natural environment has changed over the past 200 years. In his history of everyday life, the author draws on a wealth of sources for illustration: 18th-century natural science, modern technology and the new physics, and the arts
Zones of Re-membering: Time, Memory, and (un)Consciousness
Don Gifford in Zones of Re-membering shows clearly, thoughtfully, yet entertainingly how no one explanation will account for the depth and complexity of human experience and its grounding in Memory. Because consciousness is a function of Memory, "life without Memory is no life at all" as Alzheimer's all too frequently demonstrates. Both our individual and collective Memory is stored in the arts, he contends, which in turn provide a way of knowing…
History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · The arts (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (1 works)