Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I
ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION
CHAPTER 1: WILLIAM JAMES WHITMAN AND EMERSON
"Acceptance" and "Passivity" Rejection The Changing Emphasis
of Frames Sentimental Acceptance in Futurism
CHAPTER II: POETIC CATEGORIES
Tragedy Comedy Humor the Ode Negative Emphasis: the Elegy,
or Plaint Satire Burlesque The Grotesque Monasticism
and the Transitional The Didactic Didactic "Transcendence" in
Hesiod Didactic Transcendence in Eliot Other Instances of Transcendence
CHAPTER III: THE DESTINY OF ACCEPTANCE FRAMES
Discomfitures of Rejection
CHAPTER IV: CONCLUSION
PART II
THE CURVE OF HISTORY
CHAPTER 1: CHRISTIAN EVANGELISM
CHAPTER II: MEDIAEVAL SYNTHESIS
CHAPTER 111: PROTESTANT TRANSITION
CHAPTER IV: NAIVE CAPITALISM
CHAPTER v: EMERGENT COLLECTIVISM
CHAPTER VI: COMIC CORRECTIVES
PART III
ANALYSIS OF SYMBOLIC STRUCTURE
CHAPTER 1: GENERAL NATURE OF RITUAL
The Tracking Down of Symbols Synthesis and Analysis Tests
of Selectivity Analytic "Radiations" Main Components of
Ritual
CHAPTER 11: DICTIONARY OF PIVOTAL TERMS
Alienation Being Driven Into a Corner Bridging Device,
Bureaucratization of the Imaginative Casuistic Stretching,
Clust"rs Communion Control Cues Discounting "Earning" One's World,
Efficiency Essence Forensic "Good Life" "Heads I Win Tails You Lose",
Identity
Identification Imagery Legality Lexicological NcoMalthusian
Principle Opportunism Perspective by Incongruity Problem of Evil,
Repossess the World Rituals of Rebirth Salvation Device Sect,
Secular Prayer--or extended: Character-building by Secular Prayer,
Stealing Back and Forth of Symbols,Symbolic Mergers Symbols of Authority,
Transcendence
CONCLUSION
AFTERWORD TO SECOND EDITION
APPENDIX: THE SEVEN OFFICES
AFTERWORD: ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORY:
IN RETROSPECTIVE PROSPECT
