A Barfield reader : selections from the writings of Owen Barfield
Owen Barfield (Author), G. B. Tennyson (Editor)
"Owen Barfield was one of the most original and stimulating thinkers of the twentieth century, the man whose writings have won praise from figures as diverse as T.S. Eliot and Saul Bellow, Walter de la Mare and Howard Nemeroc, W.H. Auden and Marshall McLuhan. This comprehensive overview supplements major selections with numerous short supporting passages from the whole corpus of his writings and provides a glossary of Barfieldian terms and useful primary and secondary bibliographies. A respected philosopher, jurist, and student of the nature of language and human consciousness, Owen Barfield's many books published by Wesleyan include Saving the Appearances (1988), Poetic Diction (1984), and Worlds Apart (1971). He lived in East Sussex, England, at the time of his death in 1997 at the age of 99. Barfield was a writer who gained a discriminating and dedicated readership on both sides of the Atlantic, but especially in the United States."--Publisher description
Print Book, English, 1999
Wesleyan University Press ; Published by University Press of New England, [Middletown, Connecticut], Hanover, 1999
xl, 191 pages ; 24 cm
9780819563514, 9780819563613, 081956351X, 0819563617
39508150
Introduction. Owen Barfield : a life in thought ; The forgetive mind ; A Barfield glossary ; A Barfield chronology
Language and literature. From Poetic diction: Metaphor, Language and poetry, The making of meaning, Verse and prose ; From History in English words: Imagination ; from The rediscovery of meaning: The harp and the camera, Poetic diction and legal fiction
Selected short passages: The soul of the past, The English language, The poet, A felt change of consciousness, Poetic imagination, Language and meaning, The spirit of poetry
Philosophy and mraning. from Saving the appearances: The rainbow, Collective representations, Figuration and thinking, Original participation, The texture of medieval thought, Before and after the scientific revolution, The development of meaning, The origin of language, Symptoms of iconoclasm, Final participation, Saving the appearances ; from History, guilt, and habit: History of ideas : evolution of consciousness ; from Romanticism comes of age: Thinking and thought ; from The case for anthroposophy: Concerning the nature of spiritual perception ; Selected short passages: Nature and imagination, Natura naturans and natura naturata, Instinct, Dashboard knowledge, The universe as motor-car, The Darwinian hypothesis, Evolution of consciousness, Mere perception, Threefold organism
A literature of his own. from The silver trumpet: The wedding ; from Orpheus: Orpheus's lament (Act II, scene ii) ; from This ever diverse pair: Tabula in naufragio ; from Worlds apart: Discourse by Sanderson ; from Unancestral voice: Flume's lecture ; Three poems: Day, Fifty-three, Owen Barfield
Chiefly essays
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