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Tables of Contents for Literary Imagination, Ancient and Modern
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Texts and the Rendering of Imaginative Reality
1
28
Todd Breyfogle
Prelude
In a Drizzly Light
29
4
Brendan Kennelly
Part One
Atheism and the Religiosity of Euripides
33
17
Martin Ostwald
Poetry and Philosophy in Aristophanes' Clouds
50
13
James Redfield
Calypso's Choice: Immortality and Heroic Striving in the Odyssey and Ulysses
63
27
Stephanie Nelson
The Homecomings of Odysseus and Nala
90
20
Wendy Doniger
A Bird, a Mouse, a Frog, and Some Fish: A New Reading of Leviticus II
110
17
Mary Douglas
Confabulating Cephalus: Self-Narration in Ovid's Metamorphoses (7.672--865)
127
12
W. R. Johnson
Memory and Imagination in Augustine's Confessions
139
16
Todd Breyfogle
Metamorphosis and Conversion: Apuleius's Metamorphoses
155
22
Seth Benardete
Against Entertainment: Plato and the Poets Revisited
177
26
Norma Thompson
Interlude
``The Photographer'': An Essay
203
6
Soseki
Edwin McClellan
Part Two
``I Know Thee Not, Old Man'': The Renunciation of Falstaff
209
19
Amirthanayagam P. David
Transforming Conventions: The Trope of Decorum and Thomas Sheridan's Captain O'Blunder
228
15
Sandra F. Siegel
Synge: Reality and the Imagination of Place
243
13
Nicholas Grene
Mallarme and English
256
13
Francoise Meltzer
T. S. Eliot as Religious Thinker: Four Quartets
269
16
David Tracy
Rousseau on Providence
285
27
Victor Gourevitch
Dostoyevsky's Trojan Horse: A Raw Youth
312
22
Joseph N. Frank
Henry James and Modern Moral Life
334
26
Robert B. Pippin
Edmund Burke and Thomas Jefferson: Mutually Antipathetic Minds
360
15
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Postlude
Problems in American Literature
375
14
Saul Bellow
Select Bibliography: Works
389
4
David Grene
Contributors
393
4
Index
397