Jean Toomer and the Prison-house of Thought: A Phenomenology of the SpiritOffering a critique of the subjective idealism that lies at the centre of Toomer's oeuvre through the lens of Lukac's theory of reification, Robert B. Jones frames his analysis in terms of Kierkegaard's stages of development - the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. |
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Introduction Idealism and Alienation | 1 |
Aesthetics of Orientalism and the Emergence of Racial | 21 |
Hermeneutics of Form and Consciousness | 33 |
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