The productions of time : a study of the human imagination / Michael Dolzani. by Dolzani, Michael, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The forge of language -- The ironic cycle and the clarification of vision -- The recreation of evolution : hunting cultures -- The recreation of evolution : gathering and planting cultures -- The mythology of urban civilization and empire -- The progressive vision of the Bible : the trickster God -- The progressive vision of the Bible : letter and spirit -- The progressive vision of the Bible : typology -- The progressive vision in classical mythology -- The middle ages and Renaissance : romantic and spiritual heroes -- Shakespearean tragicomedy or romance -- Summary and prelude : the historical Nexus of romanticism -- In the white giant's thigh : romantic and anti-romantic -- Prometheus Agonistes : German idealism and Marxism -- Romantic internalization -- The novel : the realistic horizontal -- The historical novel and science fiction -- The novel as epic -- The lyric as epic -- Part 4. You want it darker : the vertical axis descending. Decreation and the descent quest -- Decreative realism -- Creative non-fiction : surface and depth -- The lyric : surface and depth -- The decreation myth of language -- The otherworld : traditional and dark romance -- The sublime -- The urban otherworld -- The demonic : the principle of negation -- The pluralistic afterlife -- Nothing -- Reversal -- Satire and apocalypse -- Satire, laughter, and the redemption of time.…”
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