The peer-reviewed journal of Generative Anthropology, founded by Eric Gans at UCLA. Published 1995–2024 (Vols 1–30), featuring essays by Van Oort, Bartlett, Dennis, Ludwigs, McKenna, Goldman, Eshelman, Gans, Girard, and others.
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Andrew Bartlett taught “university writing” and literary analysis at Kwantlen Polytechnic University until his retirement in 2022. He has published reviews in Subterrain , Canadian Literature, COV&R...
andrewhollisbartlett@gmail.com Abstract René Girard’s critical remarks on the originary hypothesis of Eric Gans in Evolution and Conversion (trans. 2007) risk closing off rather than opening up...
Abstract This article investigates the “musico-philosophical” perspectives of the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821–1881) and the twentieth-century British...
Abstract The Iliad dwells on the wrath felt over an act of transgression. The backdrop for the story is the legend about the abduction of Helen by Paris while a guest at the palace of her husband...
6 chemin des louis blancs 91310 Linas France bppwhalon@aol.com Abstract “The world mediated by meaning” refers to the fact that we all live in the im mediate world created by our senses, and the much...
Peter G. Goldman is Professor Emeritus at Westminster University in Utah and former president of the Generative Anthropology Society and Conference. His main areas of research and teaching are...
pgoldman@westminsteru.edu Abstract In Shakespeare’s tragedies, the protagonist is typically called to a new role in the world of the play, as when Hamlet is called to be a revenger by the appearance...
Abstract Generative anthropology posits a private scene tied to language and signification. Since both Eric Gans and Ian Dennis have begun a conversation with Buddhism and the problematic nature of...
Abstract Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness has been praised for its critique of European colonialism in Africa and blamed for its racial stereotypes in depicting the victims of this enterprise. Its...
Abstract Many contemporary Anglophone Caribbean writers resent their colonial education’s emphasis on British literature, especially Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” poem, which—as V.S. Naipaul, Marlene...
Kinjo Gakuin University Nagoya, Japan Abstract John Lennon’s “Imagine” is an extraordinarily successful song that has become a secular anthem. Not surprisingly, its message often aggravates religious...