The tough alchemy of Ben Okri: the writer as conceptual artist
Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-d...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Winner of the Booker Prize for The Famished Road, Ben Okri is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary writers writing today. Featuring a substantial new interview with Ben Okri himself, a full bibliography of his creative work and covering his complete works, this is the first in-depth study of Okri's themes and artistic vision. Rosemary Gray explores Okri's career-long engagement with myth, Nigerian politics and culture, and with the environmental crisis in the age of the Anthropocene |
| Beschreibung: | xxii, 273 Seiten Illustrationen Breite 156 mm, Hoehe 234 mm |
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| adam_text | Contents List of figures Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Part 1 The alchemy of life: ‘To find life in myth and myth in life’ (Birds of Heaven 1996) 1 Ben Okri’s aphorisms: ‘Music on the wings of a soaring bird’ ix xi xix xxiii 1 3 2 Epistemic ecology and ‘diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world’ in ‘Heraclitus’ Golden River’ from Wild 13 3 Ontopoiesis in Okri’s poetic oeuvre and A Time for New Dreams 25 4 Recovering our true state of being in‘The Comic Destiny’ 33 Part 2 Rebalancing the triadic elements of life 45 5 Apologia pro In Arcadia: A neglected masterpiece? 47 6 ‘Domesticating infinity’ in Mental Fight and Astonishing the Gods 57 7 Redreaming ways of seeing: Intuitive creativity in The Landscapes Within 69 8 Promoting the poetic cause in ‘stokus from Tales of Freedom 85 Part 3 The mercurial imaginary: The writer as ‘demiurge’ (artist/craftsman) 99 9 Sowing ‘a quilt of harmony’: Eco-phenomenology in ‘Lines in Potentis’ 101 10 ‘A clear lucid stream of everywhereness’ in Wild: A postmodern perspective 109 11 117 Survivalist culture in‘Laughter beneath the Bridge’ 12 The poetic muse of archaeology 129
Contents viii Part 4 The wheel of transformation: The writer as lodestar (guide) 139 13 Sublime transformative paremiology in A Way of Being Free 141 14 ‘The Standeruppers’: The frightening irony of the Anthropocene 149 15 Conscious reveries in The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age 157 16 ‘The Incandescence of the Wind’ (1982): ‘Rain wasdom down upon the earth’ 167 Part 5 In search of the marvellous: The sacred ziggurat (symbolic celestial mountain) 17 Protean magic in The Mystery Feast and 77ie Magic Lamp 18 ‘An Interval in the Enchantment of Living’: 77ie Age of Magic 19 When chaos is the god of an era: Rediscovering an 20 175 177 187 ‘axis mundi’ in Starbook 199 In conversation with Ben Okri 21 з Notes 223 Bibliography 243 Index 267
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Contents List of figures Preface Foreword Acknowledgements Part 1 The alchemy of life: ‘To find life in myth and myth in life’ (Birds of Heaven 1996) 1 Ben Okri’s aphorisms: ‘Music on the wings of a soaring bird’ ix xi xix xxiii 1 3 2 Epistemic ecology and ‘diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world’ in ‘Heraclitus’ Golden River’ from Wild 13 3 Ontopoiesis in Okri’s poetic oeuvre and A Time for New Dreams 25 4 Recovering our true state of being in‘The Comic Destiny’ 33 Part 2 Rebalancing the triadic elements of life 45 5 Apologia pro In Arcadia: A neglected masterpiece? 47 6 ‘Domesticating infinity’ in Mental Fight and Astonishing the Gods 57 7 Redreaming ways of seeing: Intuitive creativity in The Landscapes Within 69 8 Promoting the poetic cause in ‘stokus from Tales of Freedom 85 Part 3 The mercurial imaginary: The writer as ‘demiurge’ (artist/craftsman) 99 9 Sowing ‘a quilt of harmony’: Eco-phenomenology in ‘Lines in Potentis’ 101 10 ‘A clear lucid stream of everywhereness’ in Wild: A postmodern perspective 109 11 117 Survivalist culture in‘Laughter beneath the Bridge’ 12 The poetic muse of archaeology 129
Contents viii Part 4 The wheel of transformation: The writer as lodestar (guide) 139 13 Sublime transformative paremiology in A Way of Being Free 141 14 ‘The Standeruppers’: The frightening irony of the Anthropocene 149 15 Conscious reveries in The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age 157 16 ‘The Incandescence of the Wind’ (1982): ‘Rain wasdom down upon the earth’ 167 Part 5 In search of the marvellous: The sacred ziggurat (symbolic celestial mountain) 17 Protean magic in The Mystery Feast and 77ie Magic Lamp 18 ‘An Interval in the Enchantment of Living’: 77ie Age of Magic 19 When chaos is the god of an era: Rediscovering an 20 175 177 187 ‘axis mundi’ in Starbook 199 In conversation with Ben Okri 21 з Notes 223 Bibliography 243 Index 267 |
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