Tough Alchemy of Ben Okri

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 perspective
3.3 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 Anthropocene
4.3 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

Bibliography
Index

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