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1 online resource (255) |
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Studies in English Literatures |
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Studies in English literatures.
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Print version record |
Subject |
Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Harris, Wilson. fast (OCoLC)fst00010818 |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
3838269055 |
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9783838269054 |
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