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Literature and the irrational; a study in anthropological backgrounds

by Wayne Shumaker

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The author analyzes the primitive mind as described by modern anthropologists, and seeks to establish the continuity of creative literary patterns with those of primitive consciousness and to show that these patterns are accessible to modern man since they are also those of childish thought.-Print ed.… (more)
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The author analyzes the primitive mind as described by modern anthropologists, and seeks to establish the continuity of creative literary patterns with those of primitive consciousness and to show that these patterns are accessible to modern man since they are also those of childish thought.-Print ed.

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