Reality at White Heat

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Pre-Face xi
4. ONE. Preliminary Moves
5. Magic Words 1
6. The Age of the Gods and the Origins of Language 4
7. From a Correspondence on Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples 6
8. From The Marriage of Heaven & Hell 8
9. In Wildness is the preservation of the World 10
10. The Rise of Bourgeois Rule and the Origin of World Literature 12
11. From "Mauvais Sang" [Bad Blood] 14
12. On Ritual and Theater 16
13. From The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry 19
14. A Note on Negro Poetry/Oceanian Art 29
15. Reality at White Heat 31
16. Paideuma 36
17. The Value of Leo Frobenius 41
18. The Duende 43
19. On Negritude 52
20. The White Goddess 56
21. From Tristes Tropiques 57
22. The Epilogue to Shamanism 59
23. Human Universe 62
24. Plato and the Definition of the Primitive 71
25. Poetry and the Primitive: Notes on Poetry as an Ecological Survival Technique 90
26. Pre-Face to Technicians of the Sacred 99
27. TWO. Workings
28. The Meaning of Meaningless Words and the Coefficient of Weirdness 107
29. Born Tying Knots 112
30. How the Names are Changed on the Peyote Journey 116
31. Speech and Image: An African Tradition of the Surreal 119
32. Koyukon Riddle-Poems 121
33. Izibongo: Zulu Praise-Poems 125
34. Drum Language and Literature 129
35. Guruwari Designs 139
36. The Written Face 145
37. The Divination Poetry of Ifa 147
38. First Person Voice in Ainu Epic 155
39. Songs and the Song 158
40. Some Ewe Poets 162
41. THREE. Meanings
42. The Meaning of Everyday Objects 171
43. The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Indian Perspective on American Indian Literature 173
44. The Mushrooms of Language 187
45. An American Indian Model of the Universe 191
46. The Fertilizing Word 197
47. The Dreaming 201
48. On the Psychology of the Trickster Figure 206
49. God the Father/God the Mother 217
50. Return to Wirikuta: Ritual Reversal and Symbolic Continuity in the Huichol Peyote Hunt 225
51. The Return of the Symbol 231
52. FOUR. Doings
53. From "On the Balinese Theater" 235
54. The Aesthetics of the Sounding of the Text 241
55. From "Shamanistic Theater: Origins and Evolution" 257
56. The Sacred Clown 270
57. From The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers 273
58. Nsibidi/Action Writing 285
59. Poetry without Sound 291
60. Kabbalistic Ritual and the Bride of God 303
61. From Ritual to Theatre and Back: The Structure/Process of the Efficacy-Entertainment Dyad 311
62. FIVE. Contemporary Moves
63. From "Rites of Participation" 327
64. A Review of "Ethnopoetics" 337
65. Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology 343
66. "Tell It Like It's Right in Front of You" 366
67. Total Translation: An Experiment in the Presentation of American Indian Poetry 381
68. The Tenth Horse Song of Frank Mitchell 393
69. Song/Poetry and Language— Expression and Perception 399
70. Fragments from the Prayers Made on Behalf of Nathaniel Tam by the Tzutujil-Maya Priest Nicolas Chiviliu Tacaxoy, Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, 1953, 1959 408
71. The Man Made of Words 414
72. Neo-HooDoo Manifesto/ The Neo-HooDoo Aesthetic 417
73. Expressive Language 422
74. From "The Incredible Survival of Coyote" 425
75. Coyote Poems 433
76. The Birth of Loba 441
77. The hinges of civilization to be put back on the door 444
78. The Preface to Hades in Manganese 446
79. Talking to Discover 450
80. From "DiaLogos: Between the Written and the Oral in Contemporary Poetry" 461
81. Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet 474
82. The Death of Sedna 479
83. Bibliography 485
84. Acknowledgments 501