Frontiers of Consciousness: Interdisciplinary Studies in American Philosophy and PoetryFordham Univ Press, 1991 - 156 pages Frontiers of Consciousness is a study of the problem of consciousness in a historic period of revolutionary change, and an authentic example of "interdisciplinary studies." The book contains a wealth of insight into the conceptual interrelationships between the work of the American philosophers who have been called the Builders (William James, Josiah Royce, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey) and the work of three great modernist poets (T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams). |
Contents
The Uncommon Reader | 1 |
Divination | 21 |
Whitmans Image of Voice | 42 |
The Politics of Modern Criticism | 72 |
The Making of a Critic | 93 |
Wilde Yeats Joyce | 115 |
Long Work Short Life | 134 |
Three Spiritual Exercises | 147 |
Summations | 164 |
Magic and Spells | 182 |
Nabokov on Cruelty | 198 |
Collective Violence and Sacrifice in Shakespeares Julius Caesar | 221 |
Fiction Morals and Politics | 243 |
Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas | 255 |
What Henry James Knew | 276 |
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