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  1. Literature And The Irrational; A Study In Anthropological Backgrounds
    Author: Shumaker, Wayne
    Published: 2016; ©2016
    Publisher:  Hauraki Publishing, San Francisco

    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 -- "Virtual" autonomy of the... more

    Location:
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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    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 -- "Virtual" autonomy of the art work -- Aesthetic distance -- The role of affections in creation -- Critical recognition of feeling in art -- Baensch on the cognition of feelings -- 2-Literature and the Unified Sensibility -- The approach through psychology -- The approach through anthropology -- Reductionism and holism -- Resemblance between literary absorption and primitive psychic habits -- Synesthesia as regressive -- Recapitulation of primitive psychic states by children -- Simultaneity of datum and meaning -- Examples of undifferentiated consciousness -- Summary -- 3-The Language of Literature (1) -- Objection to generalizing about primitive languages -- A reply -- Concreteness of primitive speech -- Configurational perception -- Association of contiguities in primitive thought -- Parataxis in primitive speech -- The part for the whole in primitive thought -- Sensory and motor emphasis -- Linguistic regression-deliberate or spontaneous? -- 4-The Language of Literature (2) -- Primitive animism -- Metonymy -- The primitive confusion of percept and imagination -- Eidetic images as intermediary -- Process images as a substitute for conceptualization -- Metaphor -- Lability of primitive speech -- Magical potencies in words -- A psychoanalytic view of rhythm and rhyme -- Summary -- 5-Fictive Plot: Its Genesis and Some Recurrent Motifs -- Tell-me-why stories -- The nature of aboriginal consciousness -- Gods-the sensing and objectifying of mana -- The beginnings of myth: the influence of language -- Dreams as a source of narrative motifs -- Lévi-Strauss' method of analyzing myths -- Protagonist and antagonist "Reality" of fictive personages -- Character motifs as transactional -- Fictive time -- Dreams, omens, presages -- The marvelous -- Animals in fiction -- Primitive initiations as ancestral to fictive conversions -- Summary -- Fictions as projected states of mind -- 6-The Major Literary Types: Tragedy and Comedy -- Origin of tragedy in Greece -- Gaps in our knowledge of backgrounds -- Anthropological views of Greek tragedy -- Ritual and drama outside Greece -- Dramatic ritual and the primitive time sense -- The form of Greek tragedy -- Archaic tendencies in later tragedy -- Three modern theories -- Lucretius' view -- Tragedy and psychic release -- Archaic tendencies in comedy -- Recurrent comic elements: cheerfulness -- Comedy and ritual drama: Francis M. Cornford's analysis -- 7-The Major Literary Types: Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Antiquity of Greek epic -- Epic as Heldensage -- Dating of the Homeric poems -- Illiteracy, of the Greek Dark Ages -- Homer and oral composition -- Märchen elements -- Treatment of time -- Sacerdotal elements -- Influence of military dynasties -- Summary -- The Homeric influence -- Teutonic epic -- "Irregular" epic -- Paradise Lost, the end of a tradition -- Antiquity of lyric -- Diffuseness of primitive lyric -- Meaningless lyric -- Development from interjection to presentation -- Lyrical symbolism -- Formalization of lyric -- Continuity of modern lyric with the past -- 8-Conclusion: Literature and Feeling -- The hypothesis: review -- Implications for literary scholarship -- Implications for aesthetics -- The place of feeling in non-rational psychic states -- Character of the artist -- The embodiment of feelings in art works -- Modern art: hindrances to production and a way of overcoming them -- The place of art in culture

     
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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781786258854
    Subjects: Electronic books; Literature ; History and criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature ; Psychology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
  2. Elements of critical theory
    Author: Shumaker, Wayne
    Published: 1975
    Publisher:  Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek Osnabrück
    Signature:
    4032-623 6
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0837176638
    Subjects: Criticism
    Other subjects: Array; Criticism
    Scope: x, 131 p, 22 cm
    Notes:

    Reprint of the ed. published by University of California Press, Berkeley, which was issued as no. 1 of Perspectives in criticism

    Includes bibliographical references
  3. Literature and the irrational
    a study in anthropological backgrounds
    Author: Shumaker, Wayne
    Published: 1960
    Publisher:  Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
    Signature:
    A Aa 94a
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Subjects: Literature; Literature; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Primitive societies
    Scope: XII, 275 S
  4. Elements of critical theory
    Author: Shumaker, Wayne
    Published: 1964
    Publisher:  Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]

    Location:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    Signature:
    2000 A 26481
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    Location:
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    Signature:
    BAb 952
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    Edition: 2. print.
    Scope: VIII, 131 S
  5. Literature And The Irrational; A Study In Anthropological Backgrounds
    Author: Shumaker, Wayne
    Published: 2016; ©2016
    Publisher:  Hauraki Publishing, San Francisco

    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 -- "Virtual" autonomy of the... more

    Location:
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
    Inter-library loan:
    No inter-library loan

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signature:
    Online-Ressource
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    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 -- "Virtual" autonomy of the art work -- Aesthetic distance -- The role of affections in creation -- Critical recognition of feeling in art -- Baensch on the cognition of feelings -- 2-Literature and the Unified Sensibility -- The approach through psychology -- The approach through anthropology -- Reductionism and holism -- Resemblance between literary absorption and primitive psychic habits -- Synesthesia as regressive -- Recapitulation of primitive psychic states by children -- Simultaneity of datum and meaning -- Examples of undifferentiated consciousness -- Summary -- 3-The Language of Literature (1) -- Objection to generalizing about primitive languages -- A reply -- Concreteness of primitive speech -- Configurational perception -- Association of contiguities in primitive thought -- Parataxis in primitive speech -- The part for the whole in primitive thought -- Sensory and motor emphasis -- Linguistic regression-deliberate or spontaneous? -- 4-The Language of Literature (2) -- Primitive animism -- Metonymy -- The primitive confusion of percept and imagination -- Eidetic images as intermediary -- Process images as a substitute for conceptualization -- Metaphor -- Lability of primitive speech -- Magical potencies in words -- A psychoanalytic view of rhythm and rhyme -- Summary -- 5-Fictive Plot: Its Genesis and Some Recurrent Motifs -- Tell-me-why stories -- The nature of aboriginal consciousness -- Gods-the sensing and objectifying of mana -- The beginnings of myth: the influence of language -- Dreams as a source of narrative motifs -- Lévi-Strauss' method of analyzing myths -- Protagonist and antagonist "Reality" of fictive personages -- Character motifs as transactional -- Fictive time -- Dreams, omens, presages -- The marvelous -- Animals in fiction -- Primitive initiations as ancestral to fictive conversions -- Summary -- Fictions as projected states of mind -- 6-The Major Literary Types: Tragedy and Comedy -- Origin of tragedy in Greece -- Gaps in our knowledge of backgrounds -- Anthropological views of Greek tragedy -- Ritual and drama outside Greece -- Dramatic ritual and the primitive time sense -- The form of Greek tragedy -- Archaic tendencies in later tragedy -- Three modern theories -- Lucretius' view -- Tragedy and psychic release -- Archaic tendencies in comedy -- Recurrent comic elements: cheerfulness -- Comedy and ritual drama: Francis M. Cornford's analysis -- 7-The Major Literary Types: Epic and Lyric Poetry -- Antiquity of Greek epic -- Epic as Heldensage -- Dating of the Homeric poems -- Illiteracy, of the Greek Dark Ages -- Homer and oral composition -- Märchen elements -- Treatment of time -- Sacerdotal elements -- Influence of military dynasties -- Summary -- The Homeric influence -- Teutonic epic -- "Irregular" epic -- Paradise Lost, the end of a tradition -- Antiquity of lyric -- Diffuseness of primitive lyric -- Meaningless lyric -- Development from interjection to presentation -- Lyrical symbolism -- Formalization of lyric -- Continuity of modern lyric with the past -- 8-Conclusion: Literature and Feeling -- The hypothesis: review -- Implications for literary scholarship -- Implications for aesthetics -- The place of feeling in non-rational psychic states -- Character of the artist -- The embodiment of feelings in art works -- Modern art: hindrances to production and a way of overcoming them -- The place of art in culture

     
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    Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781786258854
    Subjects: Electronic books; Literature ; History and criticism; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Literature ; Psychology
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (238 pages)
  6. Literature and the irrational
    a study in anthropological background
    Author: Shumaker, Wayne
    Published: 1960
    Publisher:  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.

    Location:
    Universitätsbibliothek J. C. Senckenberg, Bibliothekszentrum Geisteswissenschaften (BzG)
    Signature:
    LE 360.23
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    https://hds.hebis.de/ubffm/Record/HEB120314169
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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    RVK Categories: EC 2430
    Scope: XII, 275 S.