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Informationen zum Autor Rosemary Alice Gray is ‘Emeritus Professor’ in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a rated researcher, specializing in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Pan-African texts; her current research interest is the work of Ben Okri. She has written or presented thirty-one papers on Okri’s oeuvre in the past decade. She is Honorary Life Vice President of the English Academy of Southern Africa and Managing Editor of the English Academy Review: Journal of English Studies . Her book publications include Broken Strings: The Politics of Poetry ; Sounding Wings: Short Stories from Africa (with Stephen Finn, Longmans); Light Comes out of the Darkness: The History of Expo for Young Scientists (OUP); and A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The challenges of political succession and elections in Africa (Ssali). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Foreword Acknowledgements PART I: The Alchemy of Life: ‘To find life in myth and myth in life’ ( Birds of Heaven 1996) 1.1 Ben Okri’s aphorisms: ‘Music on the wings of a soaring bird’1.2 Epistemic ecology and the ‘diminishing boundaries of a shrinking world’ in ‘Heraclitus’ Golden River’ from Wild 1.3 Ontopoiesis in Okri’s poetic oeuvre and A Time for New Dreams 1.4 Recovering our true state of being in ‘The Comic Destiny’ PART II: Rebalancing the triadic elements of life 2.1 Apologia pro In Arcadia : A neglected masterpiece?2.2 ‘Domesticating infinity’ in Mental Fight and Astonishing the Gods 2.3 Redreaming ways of seeing: Intuitive creativity in The Landscapes Within 2.4 Promoting the poetic cause in ‘stokus’ from Tales of Freedom PART III: The mercurial imaginary: The writer as demiurge (artist/ craftsman) 3.1 Sowing ‘a quilt of harmony’: Eco-phenomenology in ‘Lines in Potentis ’ 3.2 ‘A clear lucid stream of everywhereness’ in Wild : A postmodern perspective3.3 Survivalist Culture in ‘Laughter Beneath the Bridge’3.4 The Poetic Muse of Archaeology PART IV: The wheel of transformation: The writer as lodestar (guide) 4.1 Sublime transformative paremiology in A Way of Being Free 4.2 ‘The Standeruppers’: The frightening irony of the Anthropocene4.3 Conscious Reveries in The Magic Lamp: Dreams of Our Age 4.4 ‘The Incandescence of the Wind’: ‘Rain wisdom down upon this earth’ PART V: In search of the marvellous: The sacred ziggurat (symbolic celestial mountain) 5.1 Protean Magic in The Mystery Feast and The Magic Lamp 5.2 An Interval in the Enchantment of Living: The Age of Magic 5.3 When chaos is the god of an era: Rediscovering an ‘axis mundi’ in Starbook 5.4 In conversation with Ben Okri BibliographyIndex...
