The Wake of Imagination / Edition 1

by Richard Kearney

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415119504
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/28/1988
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1460L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements, Introduction: Imagination Now, PART I: PREMODERN NARRATIVES, Chapter One: The Hebraic Imagination, Chapter Two: The Hellenic Imagination, Chapter Three: The Medieval Imagination, PART II: MODERN NARRATIVES, Chapter Four: The Transcendental Imagination, Chapter Five: The Existentialist Imagination I—Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Chapter Six: The Existentialist Imagination II—Sartre, PART III: POSTMODERN NARRATIVES, Chapter Seven: The Parodic Imagination, Chapter Eight: Postmodern Culture: Apocalypse Now?, Conclusion: After Imagination?, Notes, Index