Norman O Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 1274363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman O Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | O Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN N O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Robert Duncan and Norman O. Brown
6 July 1959 (Stinson Beach, California)As an aftermath of the Wesleyan press venture, I have found a reader, I think, in Norman Holmes Pearson.1 The letter he sent me representing the Wesleyan committee gave me a personal opening to send Letters and yesterday he wrote: “The Letters is an achievement. Quite apart from taking or rejecting any single manuscript volume, there simply isn't any doubt that you are a poet. You are in Letters and you are …
To Greet the Return of the Gods
In this introduction to the Book of Ours student manual and its accompanying lectures and workshops, Norman O. Brown discusses processes for transforming the structure, dynamics, and spirit of conventional large-enrollment undergraduate courses. Brown maps the aims and intentions of the Book of Ours project as a recreation of “mythic consciousness by mythopoeic activity,” and in this way lays out a path to a more “poetical and sacred” style of ac…
Hymn to the Muses
This lecture, a tribute to the Muses, was delivered by Norman O. Brown for his class of 1971, “To Greet the Return of the Gods.” It is spoken with the preacher's rhythmic diction and charmed hieratic voice, and is transcribed here to include Brown's intentional pauses, halting rhythms, repetitions, asides, and idiosyncratic quotes. As in the Orphic tradition, the professor becomes what he's professing: Brown teaches us to sing a love song accordi…
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body, this collection of eleven essays brings Brown's thinking up to 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Brown writes that 'the prophetic tradition is an attempt to give directi…
The Papers of Daniel Webster. Correspondence. Volume 7
I. Philosophy and Prophecy
The Apocalypse of Islam
India and Indology
Closing Time
Life Against Death
The Birth of Athena
Pindar, Sophocles, and the Thirty Years' Peace
Hermes the Thief
Hermes, the Thief
Hermes, the Thief
Hermes the Thief
Pindar, Sophocles, and the Thirty Years' Peace
The Birth of Athena
Life Against Death
Closing Time
India and Indology
The Apocalypse of Islam
I. Philosophy and Prophecy
The Papers of Daniel Webster. Correspondence. Volume 7
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis
Here is the final volume of Norman O. Brown's trilogy on civilization and its discontents, on humanity's long struggle to master its instincts and the perils that attend that denial of human nature. Following on his famous books Life Against Death and Love's Body, this collection of eleven essays brings Brown's thinking up to 1990 and the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Brown writes that 'the prophetic tradition is an attempt to give directi…
Robert Duncan and Norman O. Brown
6 July 1959 (Stinson Beach, California)As an aftermath of the Wesleyan press venture, I have found a reader, I think, in Norman Holmes Pearson.1 The letter he sent me representing the Wesleyan committee gave me a personal opening to send Letters and yesterday he wrote: “The Letters is an achievement. Quite apart from taking or rejecting any single manuscript volume, there simply isn't any doubt that you are a poet. You are in Letters and you are …
To Greet the Return of the Gods
In this introduction to the Book of Ours student manual and its accompanying lectures and workshops, Norman O. Brown discusses processes for transforming the structure, dynamics, and spirit of conventional large-enrollment undergraduate courses. Brown maps the aims and intentions of the Book of Ours project as a recreation of “mythic consciousness by mythopoeic activity,” and in this way lays out a path to a more “poetical and sacred” style of ac…
Hymn to the Muses
This lecture, a tribute to the Muses, was delivered by Norman O. Brown for his class of 1971, “To Greet the Return of the Gods.” It is spoken with the preacher's rhythmic diction and charmed hieratic voice, and is transcribed here to include Brown's intentional pauses, halting rhythms, repetitions, asides, and idiosyncratic quotes. As in the Orphic tradition, the professor becomes what he's professing: Brown teaches us to sing a love song accordi…
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