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Hart, J. author

Interpreting Cultures Literature, Religion, and the Human Sciences

New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2016

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 Recognitions; Chapter One Discovering Recognition; 1.1 Gaining Recognition or Discovery across Faculties; 1.2 Recognizing the Background: Embarrassment, Mythology, and Ideology; 1.3 Biblical Instances; 1.4 Classical Examples: Epic, Tragedy, Comedy; 1.5 Some Philosophical Instances; 1.6 History: Exempla from Crossing Cultures; 1.7 Psychology and Some Psychoanalytical Examples; 1.8 Tentative Conclusions; Part 2 Readings: History and Poetics ; Chapter Two History and Empire

2.1 Texts and First Contacts2.2 Narratives of the New World; 2.3 English Colonial Hopes; 2.4 Permanent Colonies; 2.5 British and French America: Consolidation and Contestation; 2.6 British America: From Triumph to Loss and Continued Tensions; 2.7 Canada as and at a Crossroads; Chapter Three Recognizing Canadian Women and Women in Canada; 3.1 Seeing Double; 3.2 Elizabeth Bishop; 3.3 Native Poets and Poets and Natives; 3.4 African Canadian Writers and the Double Bind/Doubly Blind; 3.5 More Dualities; Chapter Four Writing and History: T.E. Lawrence and Bernard and Charlotte Shaw

4.1 A Writer and Not4.2 From the Shaws' Lawrence to the Posthumous Film and Back Again; 4.3 The Shavian Belief in Lawrence; 4.4 The Sack of a Hero; 4.5 The Recognition of Charlotte Shaw; 4.6 The Wound; 4.7 Publish and Perish; 4.8 Seeing among the Pillars or a Genius of Publicity; Chapter Five Poiema, Theoria, and Tekhne; 5.1 Poetics of Communication; 5.2 Theory; 5.3 Poetry and Poets; 5.4 Technology; 5.5 Poetry Then and Now; Chapter Six Poetry and Mythology: Coda; 6.1 Mythos; 6.2 Mythology and Ideology; 6.3 Some Possibilities for Poetry; 6.4 A Poetry that Moves, or through the Vanishing Point

Part 3 Readings: Writers, Images, and Poets Chapter Seven Creating the Word: Northrop Frye and Writing; 7.1 Finding a Context; 7.2 Looking for Self-Expression; 7.3 The Paradoxical Visionary; 7.4 Critic and Writer; 7.5 The Road Not Taken; Chapter Eight Seeing Inside Willy Loman's Head: The Tragedy of the Commoner on Film; 8.1 A Kind of Tragedy; 8.2 The End of the Play and the End of Tragedy; 8.3 Requiem; 8.4 Can Films Get Inside of This Salesman's Head?; Chapter Nine Placing Ireland: Some Lyric Poets; 9.1 W.B. Yeats; 9.2 Seamus Heaney; 9.3 Paul Muldoon and Mary O'Malley

9.4 Some Further MeditationsChapter Ten Being Novel, Almost and Not; 10.1 Some Fictions; 10.2 Traveling Mimesis or to See or Not to See; 10.3 Expanding and Moving Fictions; 10.4 Recognition and Misrecognition Once More; Conclusion; Notes; Index

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