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Time, history, and philosophy in the works of Wilson Harris /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Delfino, Gianluca (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stuttgart : Ibidem, [2012]
Colección:Studies in English literatures ; 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 Images3.2.1 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 Void5
  • Conclusions: The Perspective of Living Landscapes; Bibliography.