Collected Works

of David Lavery

Evolution of Consciousness &

Philosophical Anthropology

 

Books

Late for the Sky: The Mentality of the Space Age. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.

 

Essays/Articles/Book Chapters/Reviews

Aesop After Darwin: The Radical Anthropomorphism of The Far Side. Studies in Popular Culture 28.1 (October 2005): 71-83.

The Angel of Twentieth Century Art (unpublished paper).

The Audition of History and the Vocation of Man: Reflections on Extinction and Destiny. Michigan Quarterly Review 24 (1985): 345-67 (in a special issue on Science and the Human Image).

Departure of the Body Snatchers, or the Confessions of a Carbon Chauvinist. The Hudson Review 39 (1986): 383-404. (Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Non-fiction.)

Dreaming Nothing. Parabola 5.2 (1980): 18-23.

Dropping the Body: The X-Files, Popular Culture, and Exosomatic Evolution. Mythen der Kreativitaet. Das Schoepferische zwischen Innovation und Hybris. Frankfurt: Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2003. 282-97.

Everything is Trying to Hide Us: Rilkes Poetics of Mimicry. The Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 5.1 (1987): 63-78.

The Eye of Longing. Re-Vision 6.1 (1983): 22-33.

The French Disease and German Measles: European Memes and the Infection of Western Thought. Talk given to the European Studies Discussion Group, Middle Tennessee State University (September 1994).

The Genius of the Sea: Wallace Stevens The Idea of Order at Key West, Stanislaw Lems Solaris, and the Earth as Muse. Extrapolation 21 (1980): 101-105.

Gnosticism in the Cult Film. The Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason. Ed. J. P. Telotte. Austin: U Texas P, 1991: 187-99.

How Barfield Thought: The Creative Life of Owen Barfield. Owen Barfield: A Centennial Conference, Columbia University and Drew University (December 1998)

The Legacy of Dodona: Trees and the Evolution of Consciousness (unpublished essay).

The Light Is in Us: Susan Griffins Method in Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. Middle Tennessee University Womens Studies Conference, Murfreesboro, TN (March 1995).

The Meme and the Seme. Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, University of Cincinnati (October 1988).

No more undiscovered countries: The Early Promise and Disappointing Career of Time-Lapse Photography. Film Studies (special issue on Film and Time ed. Sarah Cardwell). Issue 9, Winter 2006: 1-8.

On Time-Lapse Photography (unpublished manuscript).

The Other Side is Myth: William Irwin Thompson, the Fin-de-Sicle, and the Evolution of Consciousness. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Savannah, GA (November 1996).

Out of and Into the Cave (unpublished essay)

Owen Barfield: A Readers Guide. Seven 15 (1998): 97-112.

Photo-graphy-synthesis. Georgia Review 34 (1980): 397-403.

Poetry as Time-Lapse Photography. Essays in the Arts and Sciences 17 (1988): 1-27.

Review of Astrid Diener, The Role of Imagination in Culture and Society: Owen Barfields Early Work. Leipzig Explorations in Literature and Culture 6. Mythlore 91 (24.1) 2003: 79-81.

Review of Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age, A Biography by Simon Blaxland-de Lange. Seven 25 (October 2008): 92-93.

Rooted in the Absence of Place: The Odyssey of Loren Eiseley. Art, Science, and Morality: Creative Journeys. Ed. Doris B. Wallace. New York: Plenum, 2005. 1-18.

The Secret. Vision: A Literary Journal Fall 1979: 38-43. Original title Damascus.

The Shadow of His Equipage: Loren Eiseley and Animals (unpublished essay).

Space Boosters: Reflections on the Marketing of Unearthliness. ETC.: A Journal of General Semantics 41 (1984): 388-97.

The Tenth Symphony. Georgia Review 35 (1981): 583-93. Finalist for the 1982 Pushcart Prize in Non-fiction. (Translated into Portuguese and republished in Brazil as Decima Sinfonia in Cultura, 1 August 1982.)

The Ventriloquist (unpublished essay).