The wake of imagination toward a postmodern culture Richard Kearney

By:

Kearney, Richard

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Routledge 1994Description: 467 p. ill. 22 cmISBN:

0415119502

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

809 KEA

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	809 KEA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000159161

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-461) and index

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. x)
Introduction (p. 1)
Part I Premodern Narratives (p. 35)
Chapter 1 The Hebraic Imagination (p. 37)
Appendix (p. 62)
Chapter 2 The Hellenic Imagination (p. 79)
Chapter 3 The Medieval Imagination (p. 114)
Appendix 1 (p. 139)
Appendix 2 (p. 144)
Appendix 3 (p. 150)
Part II Modern Narratives (p. 153)
Chapter 4 The Transcendental Imagination (p. 155)
Appendix (p. 189)
Chapter 5 The Existentialist Imagination I- Kierkegaard and Nietzsche (p. 196)
Chapter 6 The Existentialist Imagination II-sartre (p. 218)
Part III Postmodern Narratives (p. 249)
Chapter 7 The Parodic Imagination (p. 251)
Appendix (p. 296)
Chapter 8 Postmodern Culture: Apocalypse Now? (p. 299)
Appendix (p. 346)
Conclusion (p. 359)
Notes (p. 399)
Names Index (p. 463)