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| Genre/Form: | Literary criticism Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gray, Rosemary (Emeritus professor of English). The tough alchemy of Ben Okri London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. (DLC) 2020010910 |
| Named Person: | Ben Okri; Ben Okri |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rosemary Gray |
| ISBN: | 9781350152991 1350152994 |
| OCLC Number: | 1145893318 |
| Description: | xxii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Ben Okri's aphorisms : 'Music on the wings of a soaring bird' -- Epistemic ecology and the 'diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world' in 'Heraclitus' Golden River' from Wild -- Ontopoiesis in Okri's poetic oeuvre and A Time for New Dreams -- Recovering our true state of being in 'The Comic Destiny' -- Apologia pro In Arcadia : A neglected masterpiece? -- 'Domesticating infinity' in Mental Fight and Astonishing the Gods -- Redreaming ways of seeing : Intuitive creativity in The Landscapes Within -- Promoting the poetic cause in 'stokus' from Tales of Freedom -- Sowing 'a quilt of harmony' : Eco-phenomenology in 'Lines in Potentis' -- 'A clear lucid stream of everywhereness' in Wild : A postmodern perspective -- Survivalist Culture in 'Laughter Beneath the Bridge' -- The poetic muse of archaeology -- Sublime transformative paremiology in A Way of Being Free -- 'The Standeruppers' : The frightening irony of the Anthropocene -- Conscious Reveries in The Magic Lamp : Dreams of Our Age -- 'The Incandescence of the Wind' : 'Rain wisdom down upon this earth' -- Protean Magic in The Mystery Feast and The Magic Lamp -- An Interval in the Enchantment of Living : The Age of Magic -- When chaos is the god of an era : Rediscovering an 'axis mundi' in Starbook -- In conversation with Ben Okri. |
| Responsibility: | Rosemary Alice Gray. |
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This inspired and thoughtful study of the work of the acclaimed novelist and poet Ben Okri emerges from deep reflection on the many different cultural, spiritual and philosophical traditions that weave together in his writing. Rosemary Gray's careful readings shed new and illuminating light on Okri's transformational aesthetic and intensely felt planetary concerns, as manifested in each one of his works. I have no doubt that The Tough Alchemy will remain the go-to study on Okri for many years to come. * Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, UK * In these essays Rosemary Gray shows her wide reading and her eclectic mind. The essays burst with energy and critical fizz. Often the excitement of discovery can be discerned; often the surprise at intuitive delight can be felt; and often the sheer scale of the research undertaken yields lovely rewards. But mostly it is the yoking of disparate critical disciplines, brought to bear on a new reading of my work, that delivers the interest and the fascination * Ben Okri, Man Booker prize-winning novelist and poet * Gray's illumination of [Okri's] writings and her own profound insight into tolerance deserve a first place on the bookshelf of any modern humanities course. * Tydskrif vir Letterekunde * Read more...
