A.J.M. Bundy (ed.)

Selected Essays of Wilson Harris

Herausgeber: Bundy, A J M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Wilson Harris is one of the outstanding literary innovators of the century. Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature four times, his novels date from "The Palace of the Peacock" to "Jonestown." This long-awaited volume matches Harris's career with his critical writings, from 1961 to the present day. "The Selected Essays of Wilson Harris" brings together twenty-one lectures, addresses and essays to make available Harris's full range of writings. His concerns include the literate imagination, traditions of myth and fable in Central and South America, the North American literary imagination, and the inheritances and legacies of writers of the postcolonial diaspora. This comprehensive collection also comes complete with an extensive editorial introduction, providing valuable historical and theoretical context for the essays, a map of Guyana, bibliographies of Harris's fiction and non-fiction, and appendices on the legends of El Dorado and the Holy Grail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780415195652
• ISBN-10: 0415195659
• Artikelnr.: 21834411

Autorenporträt

A.J.M. Bundy is in the Department of English at the Cultural Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 The Archetypal Fiction
Chapter 1 The Music of Living Landscapes
Chapter 2 Letter From Francisco Bone To W.H.
Chapter 3 New Preface to Palace of the Peacock
Chapter 4 Merlin and Parsifal
Part 2 Cross-Cultural Community and the Womb of Space
Chapter 5 Literacy and the Imagination-A Talk
Chapter 6 Reflections On Intruder in the Dust in A Cross-Cultural Complex
Chapter 7 The Schizophrenic Sea
Chapter 8 Concentric Horizons
Chapter 9 Jean Rhys's 'Tree of Life'
Chapter 10 'Benito Cereno'
Part 3 The Root of Epic
Chapter 11 Tradition and the West Indian Novel
Chapter 12 History, Fable and Myth in the Caribbean and Guianas
Chapter 13 The Amerindian Legacy
Chapter 14 Continuity and Discontinuity
Chapter 15 Quetzalcoatl and the Smoking Mirror: Reflections on Originality and Tradition
Part 4 Unfinished Genesis
Chapter 16 Profiles of Myth and the New World
Chapter 17 In the Name of Liberty
Chapter 18 Aubrey Williams
Chapter 19 Apprenticeship to the Furies
Chapter 20 Creoleness: the Crossroads of a Civilization?
Chapter 21 The Unfinished Genesis of the Imagination