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9789766401405

Exploring the Palace of the Peacock

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  • ISBN13:

    9789766401405

  • ISBN10:

    9766401403

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of West Indies Pr
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Summary

Joyce Sparer Adler lived and worked in Guyana for five years teaching at the University of Guyana, where she developed a life-long interest in the Guyanese, novelist, poet, and surveyor, Wilson Harris. Her essays on Harris's books are profound for their insights and were scattered in various journals. They are assembled for the first time in this book and are now available to a wider audience.

Author Biography

Joyce Sparer Adler was a founding member of the University of Guyana.

Table of Contents

Foreword vi
Wilson Harris: An Autobiographical Essay viii
Biographical Sketch of Joyce Sparer Adler xxxv
Acknowledgements xl
Chapter 1 Wilson Harris: The Ideal of Unity 1(11)
Chapter 2 The Art of Wilson Harris 12(10)
Chapter 3 Tumatumari and the Imagination of Wilson Harris 22(14)
Chapter 4 Wilson Harris and Twentieth-Century Man 36(13)
Chapter 5 Melville and Harris: Poetic Imaginations Related in Their Response to the Modern World 49(11)
Chapter 6 Wilson Harris's The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination 60(9)
Chapter 7 The Evolution of Female Figures and Imagery in Wilson Harris's Novels 69(13)
Chapter 8 Wilson Harris's Cross-Cultural Dialogue with Melville 82(9)
Chapter 9 Wilson Harris: An Introduction 91(104)
Notes 195
Bibliography 100

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