Rock & Sling :A Journal of Witness
Contributor(s): Caraway, Thom [Editor]
Material type: TextSeries: Rock & SlingPublisher: Whitworth University 2016ISBN: 7447026364Subject(s): Literary Journals | Poetry - Literary Collections | Prose - Literary Collections | Whitworth University - Spokane (Washington)Summary: Literary publication of Whitworth University. The editors of Rock & Sling believe that the act of writing, and of reading, literature is a way of witnessing to the truth of experience, drilling down to the core of language's vitality, and accepting an understanding of artistic language as a kind of testimony. The word witness means to testify: to tell the truth. The compulsion of the word is bracing in its charge to the writer to understand the his or her work matters not just as an expression of experience and response but as a n active language engaged morally as well as aesthetically. To tell the truth is an act of responsibility as well as an expression of hope. To testify is an act of responsibility as well as an expression of faith.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Literary Arts | Spark Central Literary Arts | Local | LITERARY ARTS - ANTHOLOGY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31214000017756 |
Literary publication of Whitworth University. The editors of Rock & Sling believe that the act of writing, and of reading, literature is a way of witnessing to the truth of experience, drilling down to the core of language's vitality, and accepting an understanding of artistic language as a kind of testimony. The word witness means to testify: to tell the truth. The compulsion of the word is bracing in its charge to the writer to understand the his or her work matters not just as an expression of experience and response but as a n active language engaged morally as well as aesthetically. To tell the truth is an act of responsibility as well as an expression of hope. To testify is an act of responsibility as well as an expression of faith.
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