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1 online resource (xii, 213 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in English literatures,
1614-4651 ;
18
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Studies in English literatures ; 18.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 discussed in relation to the categories of history and time with reference to several novels, from "Palace of The Peacock" to "The Mask of the Beggar", with a special focus on "The Infinite Rehearsal", "Jonestown" and "The Dark Jester", spanning more than forty years of his vast literary production, encompassing critical perspectives ranging from African philosophy to Jungian readings through historiography and anthropology. As a result, the cross-cultural quality of Harris' thought emerges as a healing outcome of the traumatic colonial encounter, bringing together elements of Amerindian, African and European origin in an ongoing dialogue with time, nature, and the psyche. The outcome of an extensive research into Harris' world, Delfino's study stands in the tradition of the late Hena Maes-Jelinek's critical enterprise by expanding philosophical and psychological readings, with the addition of anthropological perspectives that appeal to those who were captured by Harris' intricacy and rescued by Maes-Jelinek's illuminating interpretations. The attempt to reconstruct a unifying frame around Harris' body of work suggests a new way of looking at one of the Caribbean's most controversial authors. |
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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 |
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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 |
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4.2.2 The Inca and Atahualpan Void5 -- Conclusions: The Perspective of Living Landscapes; Bibliography |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Harris, Wilson -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Harris, Wilson. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Harris, Wilson. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Delfino, Gianluca, author. Time, history, and philosophy in the works of Wilson Harris 9783838202655 (OCoLC)841180908 |
| ISBN |
9783838262659 (electronic book) |
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3838262654 (electronic book) |
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9783838202655 |
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3838202651 |
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EB00655100 Recorded Books |
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