Jean Toomer and the prison-house of thought : a phenomenology of the spirit / Robert B. Jones.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The Aesthetic Sphere (1918-1923). 1. Aesthetics of Orientalism and the Emergence of Racial Consciousness. Imagist and Symbolist Poets. "Like Green Blades Sprouting in His Consciousness" 2. Cane: Hermeneutics of Form and Consciousness. The Structure of Language: Metaphor and Metonymy. The Art of Literary Portraiture. Spiritual Design and the Structure of Plot. Cane: Toward a Definition of Form
- pt. 2. The Ethical Sphere (1924-1939). 3. Landscapes of the Self: Art and Gurdjieffian Idealism. The Poet as Idealist Philosopher. Higher Consciousness in the Novels. "The Eye": A Study in Terror and Insanity. "Cosmic Consciousness" and the American Southwest. 4. Landscapes of Society: The Postwar Decade. "Lost and Dominant": Landscape of the Modern Wasteland.
- Further Social Perspectives
- pt. 3. The Religious Sphere (1940-1955). 5. Quiet Rebel: Quaker Religious Idealism. The Ethical versus the Religious. Passage to India. The Poet as Knight of Faith. The Literary Canon of Jean Toomer. Jean Toomer Bibliography, 1923-1992. Secondary Sources.