The Productions of Time : A Study of the Human Imagination.

Cover -- THE PRODUCTIONS OF TIME -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editions Cited -- Overture: Concerning Mandala Symbolism: The Symbol with and without Meaning -- Introduction: The State of Criticism at the Present Time -- PART ONE FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN: THE VERTICAL AXIS ASCENDING -- I Revelation, or Imagination -- II Emanation -- III Creation -- IV Scripture as Creation -- V "Our Great Salvation from Above": Traditional Mythology and the Point of Transcendence -- PART TWO THERE IS A SEASON: THE CYCLE -- I Paradise -- II The Fall -- III The Fallen World of Cyclical Time: Law and Sacrifice -- IV Tragedy -- V Comedy -- VI The Form of Drama -- PART THREE THE EYE BEGINS TO SEE: THE HORIZONTAL AXIS -- I The Affirmation of the Cycle -- II The Progressive Vision -- III What the Hammer? The Forge of Language -- IV The Ironic Cycle and the Clarification of Vision -- V The Recreation of Evolution: Hunting Cultures -- VI The Recreation of Evolution: Gathering and Planting Cultures -- VII The Mythology of Urban Civilization and Empire -- VIII The Progressive Vision of the Bible: The Trickster God -- IX The Progressive Vision of the Bible: Letter and Spirit -- X The Progressive Vision of the Bible: Typology -- XI The Progressive Vision in Classical Mythology -- XII The Middle Ages and Renaissance: Romantic and Spiritual Heroes -- XIII Shakespearean Tragicomedy or Romance -- XIV Summary and Prelude: The Historical Nexus of Romanticism -- XV In the White Giant's Thigh: Romantic and Anti-Romantic -- XVI Prometheus Agonistes: German Idealism and Marxism -- XVII Romantic Internalization -- XVIII The Novel: The Realistic Horizontal -- XIX The Historical Novel and Science Fiction -- XX The Novel as Epic -- XXI The Lyric as Epic -- PART FOUR YOU WANT IT DARKER: THE VERTICAL AXIS DESCENDING.

I Decreation and the Descent Quest -- II Decreative Realism -- III Creative Non-fiction: Surface and Depth -- IV The Lyric: Surface and Depth -- V The Decreation Myth of Language -- VI The Otherworld: Traditional and Dark Romance -- VII The Sublime -- VIII The Urban Otherworld -- IX The Demonic: The Principle of Negation -- X The Pluralistic Afterlife -- XI Nothing -- XII Reversal -- XIII Satire and Apocalypse -- XIV Satire, Laughter, and the Redemption of Time -- Notes -- Index.

Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. With the aim of rehabilitating myth criticism for our time, Michael Dolzani sketches an anatomy of the imagination as demonstrated in the total body of its productions, including literature, mythology, the arts, popular culture, and religious and political texts.

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