The Gordian Not: Appendix 2

Appendix 2: PDC Material Published to Date

1-6 Approximately 3 ms. pages of PDC published as

  • “Unburned Bridges of Poetics, or How to Keep Poetry Pure.” Centennial Review 8 (Fall 1964): 391-97. [UC 25]

    Additional material published in

  • “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “‘Poetic,’ ‘Aesthetic,’ and ‘Artistic,’” pp. 35-38).

7-13 Published in

  • “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Logic of the Terms,” pp. 38-42).

14-37 Approximately 17 ms. pages of PDC published as

  • “A ‘Dramatistic’ View of Imitation.” Accent 12 (Autumn 1952): 229-41. [UC 25]

    Republished in

  • Rueckert (ed), Essays Toward a Symbolic of Motive, pp. 5-18.

38-55 UNCOLLECTED: Approximately 5 ms. pages of PDC (38-40, 43-44, 47) published in

  • “On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript.” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 25-26]

56-74 UNCOLLECTED:Large sections published in

  • “On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript.” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 26]

75-178 Revised, abridged, and published as

  • “The Thinking of the Body: Comments on the Imagery of Catharsis in Literature,” Psychoanalytic Review 50 (Fall 1963): 25-68. Later collected in LSA, pp. 308-43.

    Incorporates part of

  • “On Catharsis, or Resolution, with a Postscript.” Kenyon Review 21 (Summer 1959): 337-75. [UC 23, 26-27]

179-99 Published in

  • “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Form,” pp. 42-51).

200-80 Abridged and published as

  • “Form & Persecution in the Oresteia. ” Sewanee Review 60 (Summer 1952): 377-96.

    Later collected in

  • LSA, pp. 125-38. [UC 23]

    Published in

  • Rueckert’s Essays (103-47) in the original, unedited version corresponding to PDC 200-80.

281-319 Published in

  • “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Beyond Catharsis,” pp. 52-70).

320-60 UNCOLLECTED: Published as

  • “Catharsis—Second View.” Centennial Review of Arts and Science 5 (Spring 1961): 107-132. [UC 28]

361-74 Published in

  • “Watchful of Hermetics to Be Strong in Hermeneutics,” Unending Conversations, pp. 35-80 (as section on “Platonic Transcendence,” pp. 70-77).

375-96 UNCOLLECTED: Published as

  • “The Poetic Motive.” Hudson Review 40 (Spring 1958): 54-63. [UC 29]

SUMMARY

  • Unpublished material: 20 ms. pages
  • Uncollected material: 90 ms. pages
  • Published in LSA: 185 ms. pages
  • Published in UC: 84 ms. pages
  • Published in Essays: 17 ms. pages  

Poetics, “Dramatistically” Considered

Approximate page totals for the existing manuscript

PDC page #

Unpublished

Uncollected

LSA

UC

Essays

1-6

 

3

 

3

 

7-13

 

 

 

7

 

14-37

7

 

 

 

17

38-55

13

5

 

 

 

56-74

 

19

 

 

 

75-178

 

 

104

 

 

179-99

 

 

 

21

 

200-80

 

 

81

 

[81]

281-319

 

 

 

39

 

320-60

 

41

 

 

 

361-74

 

 

 

14

 

375-96

 

22

 

 

 

Totals

20

90

185

84

17