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Time, history, and philosophy in the works of Wilson Harris /
Gianluca Delfino's study is based on the assumption that Wilson Harris' works as a whole show a remarkable unity of thought rooted in their author's complex imagination. As a valuable contribution to Caribbean Literature and Philosophy, Harris' imaginative approach to reality is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem Verlag,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Studies in English literatures ;
Bd. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""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""; ""2 � Time and History ""; ""2.1 Historiography and Contemporary Philosophies of History""; ""2.1.1 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 information""; ""4.1.3 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""; ""Bibliography""