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The Inward Turn of Narrative
Erich Kahler
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Paperback. Translator(s): Winston, Richard; Winston, Clara. Series: Bollingen Series (General). Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth century. The general direction is toward a growing inwardness, he finds; what takes place is an expansion of consciousness as man constantly draws outer space, the contents of a more and more complex world, into what Rilke called Weltinnenraum, inner space. Originally published in 1973. The ... Read more
Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth century. The general direction is toward a growing inwardness, he finds; what takes place is an expansion of consciousness as man constantly draws outer space, the contents of a more and more complex world, into what Rilke called Weltinnenraum, inner space. Originally published in 1973. The ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Bollingen Series (General)
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691619279
SKU
V9780691619279
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