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Book SynopsisPresents a study of the author's scholarly, literary, and autobiographical works at the University of Colorado in 1982.
Table of Contents; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Kitagawa; Joseph Mitsuo; Prologue:; Promise and the Labyrinth; Carrasco; David; Introduction: Other Eliades; Carrasco; David; Law; Jane Marie; Part One; The Grand Oscillation: Selections from the Oeuvre of Mircea Eliade; Waiting for the Dawn; Literary Imagination and Religious Structure; Sambo; From Silkworms to Alchemy; A New Humanism; Sky, Moon, and Egg; Vocation and Destiny: Savant, Not Saint; Literature and Fantasy; A Terrific Illusionist: The Best!; The Terror of History; The Criterion Group: From Freud to Charlie Chaplin; Part Two; Encounter and Reflection: Essays by Seminar Participants; Sacred Space, Historicity, and Mircea Eliade; Pois; Robert A.; Forbidden Forest: Eliade as Artist and Shaman; Nolan; Edward P.; Mircea Eliade: The Self and the Journey; Taylor; Rodney L.; Part Three; Souvenirs; Mircea Eliade and the "Duration of Life": An Abundance of Souvenirs; Carrasco; David; Renewed Reflections; Law; Jane Marie; Introduction to "In the Shadow of a Lily"; Ricketts; Mac Linscott; In the Shadow of a Lily; Eliade; Mircea; About the Contributors; About the Book and Editors;