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Author Delfino, Gianluca

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Edition Second, revised and expanded edition
Published New York, NY, UNITED STATES : Columbia University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (255)
Series Studies in English Literatures
Studies in English literatures.
Contents Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Paget Henry; Preface; 1 -- A Coherent Design: An Introduction; 1.1 C.L.R. James's Heideggerian Interpretation; 1.2 Hegelian Dialectics and Wilson Harris's Novels; 1.3 Imaginative Poeticism: A Caribbean Perspective; 1.3.1 Consciousness and Ego Dynamics; 1.3.2 Poetics of Consciousness; 1.4 Gnostic Tradition and Faustian Themes; 1.5 Further Philosophical perspectives; 1.5.1 Nietzsche's Creative Power and Hubris; 1.5.2 Benjamin's Messianic History; 1.5.3 Deleuze and Temporality; 2 -- Time and History
2.1 Historiography and Contemporary Philosophies of History2.1.1 Western Historiography and Authoritarian Narratives; 2.1.2 Non-Western Traditions of History; 3 -- Jungian and Pre-Modern Influences; 3.1 Jungian Influences; 3.2 Archetypal Images; 3.2.1 Archetypal Images in Earlier Novels; 3.2.2 Doctor Faustus and The Infinite Rehearsal; 3.2.3 Jonestown and the Shape of Evil; 3.2.4 The Mask of the Beggar and Ulyssean Images; 3.3 Archetypes, the Collective Unconscious, the World's Unconscious and the Quest for Unity; 4 -- Pre-Columbian Legacies; 4.1 Amerindians; 4.1.1 Guyanese Society
4.1.2 Amerindians: Historical and Anthropological information4.1.3 Harris's Main Anthropological Sources; 4.1.4 The Amerindian Legacy: An Imaginative Reading; 4.2 Meso-American and South-American Main Civilisations; 4.2.1 The Maya; 4.2.2 The Inca and Atahualpan Void; 5 -- Conclusions: The Perspective of Living Landscapes; Afterword: Tuning to the Music of the Earth; Bibliography
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Subject Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Harris, Wilson. fast (OCoLC)fst00010818
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 3838269055
9783838269054