Interpreting cultures : literature, religion, and the human sciences / Jonathan Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature and history.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xi, 340 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Contents:

Part 1 Recognitions

Chapter 1 Discovering Recognition 21

1.1 Gaining Recognition or Discovery across Faculties 21

1.2 Recognizing the Background: Embarrassment, Mythology, and Ideology 23

1.3 Biblical Instances 27

1.4 Classical Examples: Epic, Tragedy, Comedy 33

1.5 Some Philosophical Instances 45

1.6 History: Exempla from Crossing Cultures 54

1.7 Psychology and Some Psychoanalytical Examples 60

1.8 Tentative Conclusions 70

Part 2 Readings: History and Poetics

Chapter 2 History and Empire 75

2.1 Texts and First Contacts 75

2.2 Narratives of the New World 77

2.3 English Colonial Hopes 79

2.4 Permanent Colonies 80

2.5 British and French America: Consolidation and Contestation 81

2.6 British America: From Triumph to Loss and Continued Tensions 83

2.7 Canada as and at a Crossroads 86

Chapter 3 Recognizing Canadian Women and Women in Canada 89

3.1 Seeing Double 89

3.2 Elizabeth Bishop 93

3.3 Native Poets and Poets and Natives 95

3.4 African Canadian Writers and the Double Bind/Doubly Blind 98

3.5 More Dualities 100

Chapter 4 Writing and History: T.E. Lawrence and Bernard and Charlotte Shaw 106

4.1 A Writer and Not 109

4.2 From the Shaws' Lawrence to the Posthumous Film and Back Again 117

4.3 The Shavian Belief in Lawrence 122

4.4 The Sack of a Hero 127

4.5 The Recognition of Charlotte Shaw 131

4.6 The Wound 134

4.7 Publish and Perish 135

4.8 Seeing among the Pillars or a Genius of Publicity 139

Chapter 5 Poiema, Theoria, and Tekhne 142

5.1 Poetics of Communication 143

5.2 Theory 144

5.3 Poetry and Poets 147

5.4 Technology 149

5.5 Poetry Then and Now 152

Chapter 6 Poetry and Mythology: Coda 158

6.1 Mythos 158

6.2 Mythology and Ideology 159

6.3 Some Possibilities for Poetry 161

6.4 A Poetry that Moves, or through the Vanishing Point 163

Part 3 Readings: Writers, Images, and Poets

Chapter 7 Creating the Word: Northrop Frye and Writing 167

7.1 Finding a Context 167

7.2 Looking for Self-Expression 169

7.3 The Paradoxical Visionary 176

7.4 Critic and Writer 179

7.5 The Road Not Taken 181

Chapter 8 Seeing Inside Willy Loman's Head: The Tragedy of the Commoner on Film 185

8.1 A Kind of Tragedy 186

8.2 The End of the Play and the End of Tragedy 187

8.3 Requiem 190

8.4 Can Films Get Inside of This Salesman's Head? 191

Chapter 9 Placing Ireland: Some Lyric Poets 194

9.1 W.B. Yeats 196

9.2 Seamus Heaney 204

9.3 Paul Muldoon and Mary O'Malley 206

9.4 Some Further Meditations 208

Chapter 10 Being Novel, Almost and Not 210

10.1 Some Fictions 211

10.2 Traveling Mimesis or to See or Not to See 214

10.3 Expanding and Moving Fictions 219

10.4 Recognition and Misrecognition Once More 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [239]-316) and index.

ISBN:

1403971285

OCLC:

67374998

Publisher Number:

9781403971289