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