Exploring the Palace of the Peacock

Joyce Sparer Adler lived and worked in Guyana for five years teaching at the University of Guyana, where she developed a life-long interest in the Guyanese, novelist, poet, and surveyor, Wilson Harris. Her essays on Harris's books are profound for their insights and were scattered in various journals. They are assembled for the first time in this book and are now available to a wider audience.

Joyce Sparer Adler was a founding member of the University of Guyana.

Foreword	vi
Wilson Harris: An Autobiographical Essay	viii
Biographical Sketch of Joyce Sparer Adler	xxxv
Acknowledgements	xl
Chapter 1 Wilson Harris: The Ideal of Unity	1	(11)
Chapter 2 The Art of Wilson Harris	12	(10)
Chapter 3 Tumatumari and the Imagination of Wilson Harris	22	(14)
Chapter 4 Wilson Harris and Twentieth-Century Man	36	(13)
Chapter 5 Melville and Harris: Poetic Imaginations Related in Their Response to the Modern World	49	(11)
Chapter 6 Wilson Harris's The Womb of Space: The Cross-Cultural Imagination	60	(9)
Chapter 7 The Evolution of Female Figures and Imagery in Wilson Harris's Novels	69	(13)
Chapter 8 Wilson Harris's Cross-Cultural Dialogue with Melville	82	(9)
Chapter 9 Wilson Harris: An Introduction	91	(104)
Notes	195
Bibliography	100

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Exploring the Palace of the Peacock

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