The philosophy of enchantment : studies in folktale, cultural criticism, and anthropology /
This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the centre of the book are six chapters of a study of folktale and...
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2005
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Table of Contents:
- ABBREVIATIONS; EDITORS' FOREWORD AND NOTE; EDITORS' INTRODUCTION; 1. The Re-Enactment of Self: Perspectives from Literature, Criticism, and Culture; 2. A Fieldworker's Philosopher: Perspectives from Anthropology; 3. In Defence of Collingwood: Perspectives from Philosophy and the History of Ideas; PART I: ART AND CULTURE; Words and Tune; Observations on Language; Jane Austen (1921); Jane Austen (?1934); The Philosophy of Art; Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice; PART II: TALES OF ENCHANTMENT; 1. Fairy Tales; 2. Three Methods of Approach: Philological, Functional, Psychological.
- 3. The Historical Method4. Magic; 5. Excavating Cinderella and King Lear; 6. The Authorship of Fairy Tales; Addenda to the Folktale Manuscript; PART III: THE MODERN UNEASE; Art and the Machine; Man Goes Mad; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
