The world of the imagination : sum and substance
In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.
xiv, 810 pages ; 24 cm
9780847676507, 9780847677764, 0847676501, 0847677761
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Introduction
Ancient writers
Medieval writers
Modern writers
Twentieth-century writers (with debates and developments)
Conclusions: why an image-forming imagination should, after all, be affirmed
Cognitive science: setting of imagery-investigations
Science of mental imagery: cognitive psychology
Science of memory: storage and retrieval of visual imagery
Children's imagery
Various imagery-topics
Organs of the imagination: eye and brain
Real images: real depictions of real objects
Mental images: unreal pictures of real objects
Imaginary images: unreal pictures of unreal objects
Visions into words and words into visions
Literacy creation: imagining apotheosized
Literacy language: two figures of speech
Literary imagining: two genres of fiction
Space of imagining
Thoughtful space: geometry of imaging
Aesthetic space: pictures and paintings
Theology: contrary estimations of the imagination
No-places and past times: imaginary worlds
Places and passions: imaginative world
Conclusion: imaginative projection and thoughtful penetration: transparance and transcendence