{"product_id":"grounded-visionary-9781433164712","title":"Grounded Visionary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane\u003c\/em\u003e is a reading of Australian writer Gerald Murnane's fiction in the light of what is known as the Perennial Philosophy, a philosophical tradition that positions itself as the mystical foundation of all the world's religions and spiritual systems. The essential tenet of that philosophy is that at a fundamental level all of life is a unityconsciousness and world are the same thingand that it is possible, if extremely difficult, for the discriminating individual mind to experience this wholeness. Murnane's work can be seen not to take its lead from writings in this philosophical tradition but rather to resonate with many of them through Murnane's unique artistic expression of his experience of the world. The crux of the argument is that beneath their yearnings for landscapes and love, Murnane's narrators and chief characters are all in search of the essential unity that the Perennial Philosophy postulates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Abbreviations – Introduction – The Infinite Sentence: \u003cem\u003eTamarisk Row\u003c\/em\u003e – Necessary Angels: \u003cem\u003eA Season on Earth\u003c\/em\u003e – Hiding in Plain Sight: \u003cem\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/em\u003e – Six Authors in Search of a Character: \u003cem\u003eLandscape with Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e – Find the Lady: \u003cem\u003eInland\u003c\/em\u003e – First, Love: \u003cem\u003eStream System\u003c\/em\u003e – \"Where the Painted Places Ended\": \u003cem\u003eBarley Patch\u003c\/em\u003e – To Literature, With Love: \u003cem\u003eA History of Books\u003c\/em\u003e – Through a Glass, Darkly: \u003cem\u003eA Million Windows\u003c\/em\u003e – Radiant Stains: \u003cem\u003eBorder Districts\u003c\/em\u003e – Conclusion – Index. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039649759575,"sku":"9781433164712","price":69.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433164712.jpg?v=1750944379","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/grounded-visionary-9781433164712","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}