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The Wake of Imagination: Toward a Postmodern Culture
By Richard Kearney
478 pages
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With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements x
- Introduction 1
- Part I - Premodern Narratives 35
- Chapter One - The Hebraic Imagination 37
- Appendix 62
- Chapter Two - The Hellenic Imagination 79
- Chapter Three - The Medieval Imagination 114
- Appendix 1 139
- Appendix 2 144
- Appendix 3 150
- Part II - Modern Narratives 153
- Chapter Four - The Transcendental Imagination 155
- Appendix 189
- Chapter Five - The Existentialist Imagination I— Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 196
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgements x
- Introduction 1
- Part I - Premodern Narratives 35
- Chapter One - The Hebraic Imagination 37
- Appendix 62
- Chapter Two - The Hellenic Imagination 79
- Chapter Three - The Medieval Imagination 114
- Appendix 1 139
- Appendix 2 144
- Appendix 3 150
- Part II - Modern Narratives 153
- Chapter Four - The Transcendental Imagination 155
- Appendix 189
- Chapter Five - The Existentialist Imagination I— Kierkegaard and Nietzsche 196
- Chapter Six - The Existentialist Imagination II—sartre 218
- Part III - Postmodern Narratives 249
- Chapter Seven - The Parodic Imagination 251
- Appendix 296
- Chapter Eight - Postmodern Culture: Apocalypse Now? 299
- Appendix 346
- Conclusion 359
- Notes 399
- Names Index 463