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A LIMBO OF SHARDS
Copyright
Contents
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
I Memory
1 And Who to Know? Monuments, Text and the Trope of Time in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! 1987
2 The Birth of the Heroic in Homer’s Iliad and Maxwell’s Gettysburg 1992
3 The Narrative Play of Memoryin Epic 1992
4 From Silence to Sound: Sonia as Redemptive Muse in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment 1988
5 Back to the Future, Forward tothe Past 2002
6 Housing the Eye of Memory 2000
7 The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor: A Poetic View of Freedom and Mass Conformity 2004
8 Vietnam’s Open Wound, Ritual, and a Failed Imagination. 2005
9 Poetry’s Mode of Knowing: Dante’s Pilgrimage From Mimesis to Wisdom 2006
10 Why Should We Remember? The Terezin Ghetto 2006
II Myth
11 An Orwellian Wedding 1989
12 Soul’s Echo and the Imagination of the Teacher: Redeeming Learning in the Twenty-First Century 1994
13 Adult Learning and the Second Level of Hope 2003
14 Eros and Psyche: The Rite to Wound and the Swelling of Consciousness 2003
15 Moby-Dick and the Myth of Narcissus: Seeing Into and Seeing Through 2004
16 Tending the Muse of Poetry: Polyhymnia, Myth and Dream 2004
17 The Politics of Apocalypse 2004
18 Addicted to the Myth of Development 2004
19 The Leading Myth of the Day 2005
20 The Desert is a Myth and Its Wisdom Wild 2006
III Metaphor
21 The Icon and the Spirit of Comedy: Dostoevsky’s The Possessed 1984
22 Singing of Hands and the Man 1985
23 Is Memory Metaphorical, Or is Metaphor Memorial? Dostoevsky’s “The Peasant Marey” 1988
24 Seized by the Muse: Dostoevsky’s Convulsive Poetics in The Idiot 1999
25 Centering the Body: Centering the Earth 2000
26 The True Terror of Terrorism 2002
27 Parallel Poetics and the Energy of Metaphor 2003
28 Bowing to the Wound: Philoctetes as a Tragedy of Compassion 2005
29 Hospitals and Hermitages: Strange Bedfellows? 2005
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