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Literature And The Irrational; A Study In Anthropological Backgrounds
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The author analyzes the primitive mind as described by modern anthropologists, and seeks to establish the continuity of creative literary patterns with those of primitive consciousness and to show that these patterns are accessible to modern man since they are also those of childish thought.-Print ed.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- THANKS ARE DUE TO THE FOLLOWING PUBLISHING HOUSES AND PERSONS FOR PERMISSION TO CITE EXCERPTS FROM THE WORKS NOTED:
- 1-The Cognitive Value of Literature
- 2-Literature and the Unified Sensibility
- 3-The Language of Literature (1)
- 4-The Language of Literature (2)
- 5-Fictive Plot: Its Genesis and Some Recurrent Motifs
- 6-The Major Literary Types: Tragedy and Comedy
- 7-The Major Literary Types: Epic and Lyric Poetry
- 8-Conclusion: Literature and Feeling