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Literature And The Irrational; A Study In Anthropological Backgrounds.

The author analyzes the primitive mind as described by modern anthropologists, and seeks to establish the continuity of creative literary patterns with those of primitive consciousness and to show that these patterns are accessible to modern man since they are also those of childish thought. -- Prov...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shumaker, Wayne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco : Hauraki Publishing, 2016.
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505 0 |a TABLE OF CONTENTS; DEDICATION; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; THANKS ARE DUE TO THE FOLLOWING PUBLISHING HOUSES AND PERSONS FOR PERMISSION TO CITE EXCERPTS FROM THE WORKS NOTED:; 1-The Cognitive Value of Literature; "Virtual" autonomy of the art work; Aesthetic distance; The role of affections in creation; Critical recognition of feeling in art; Baensch on the cognition of feelings; 2-Literature and the Unified Sensibility; The approach through psychology; The approach through anthropology; Reductionism and holism; Resemblance between literary absorption and primitive psychic habits. 
505 8 |a Synesthesia as regressiveRecapitulation of primitive psychic states by children; Simultaneity of datum and meaning; Examples of undifferentiated consciousness; Summary; 3-The Language of Literature (1); Objection to generalizing about primitive languages; A reply; Concreteness of primitive speech; Configurational perception; Association of contiguities in primitive thought; Parataxis in primitive speech; The part for the whole in primitive thought; Sensory and motor emphasis; Linguistic regression-deliberate or spontaneous?; 4-The Language of Literature (2); Primitive animism; Metonymy. 
505 8 |a The primitive confusion of percept and imaginationEidetic images as intermediary; Process images as a substitute for conceptualization; Metaphor; Lability of primitive speech; Magical potencies in words; A psychoanalytic view of rhythm and rhyme; Summary; 5-Fictive Plot: Its Genesis and Some Recurrent Motifs; Tell-me-why stories; The nature of aboriginal consciousness; Gods-the sensing and objectifying of mana; The beginnings of myth: the influence of language; Dreams as a source of narrative motifs; Lévi-Strauss' method of analyzing myths; Protagonist and antagonist. 
505 8 |a "Reality" of fictive personagesCharacter motifs as transactional; Fictive time; Dreams, omens, presages; The marvelous; Animals in fiction; Primitive initiations as ancestral to fictive conversions; Summary; Fictions as projected states of mind; 6-The Major Literary Types: Tragedy and Comedy; Origin of tragedy in Greece; Gaps in our knowledge of backgrounds; Anthropological views of Greek tragedy; Ritual and drama outside Greece; Dramatic ritual and the primitive time sense; The form of Greek tragedy; Archaic tendencies in later tragedy; Three modern theories; Lucretius' view. 
505 8 |a Tragedy and psychic releaseArchaic tendencies in comedy; Recurrent comic elements: cheerfulness; Comedy and ritual drama: Francis M. Cornford's analysis; 7-The Major Literary Types: Epic and Lyric Poetry; Antiquity of Greek epic; Epic as Heldensage; Dating of the Homeric poems; Illiteracy, of the Greek Dark Ages; Homer and oral composition; Märchen elements; Treatment of time; Sacerdotal elements; Influence of military dynasties; Summary; The Homeric influence; Teutonic epic; "Irregular" epic; Paradise Lost, the end of a tradition; Antiquity of lyric; Diffuseness of primitive lyric. 
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