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From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 3
(If you felt the previous section jumped around a bit, you’ll love this, which tries to get from Nietzsche to Carol Ann Duffy in as few paragraphs as possible. Again the argument is trying to favour metaphor’s capacity for comparison … Continue reading
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Tagged Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Motion, Anti-Oedipus, Apollonian, Aristotle, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher Isherwood, Coleridge, Creative Writing, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation, Dionysian, Edwin Morgan, Félix Guattari, Fiona Samoson, Freud, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gilles Deleuze, Gorbachov, Hesiod, Humphrey Carpenter, John Betjeman, Julian Jaynes, Keats, Lenin, Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Oedipalisation, Plato, Poetry, Putin, Richard Hugo, Rimbaud, Robert Lowell, Socrates, Stalin, Stephen Spender, Ted Hughes, The Birth of Tragedy, The Cooked and the Raw, The Poet Laureate, The Poetics, The Republic, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Wordsworth, Yeltsin
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From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman, 2
(This second section juxtaposes in a somewhat speculative manner two key texts in the Western canon by Hesiod and Plato, using a favourite but hardly authoritative text by Julian Jaynes to get a handle on the argument, which is based … Continue reading
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Tagged Achilles, Aritotle, Athene, Deiphobus, Hector, Helicon, Hesiod, HOmer, Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Julian Jaynes, Jung, Plato, Socrates, The Iliad, The Muses, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, The Poetics, The Republic, The Theogeny, Zeus
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