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Author : Simon Biggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024849031
Drawing on original research and empirical sources, Simon Biggs critically assesses notions of adult aging as they affect people's lifestyles and their sense of personal and social identity.
Author : Simon Biggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UVA:X006006566
Drawing on original research and empirical sources, Simon Biggs critically assesses notions of adult aging as they affect people's lifestyles and their sense of personal and social identity.
Author : Richard Marggraf Turley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134441037
For many readers, John Keats's achievement is to have attainted a supreme poetic maturity at so young an age. Canonical poems of resignation and acceptance such as 'To Autumn' are traditionally seen as examples par excellence of this maturity. In this highly innovative study, however, Marggraf Turley examines how, for Keats, an insistence on 'boyishness' in the midst of apparent mature imagery is the very essence of his political contestation of the literary establishment.
Author : Marjorie Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199909193
Children are widely celebrated for their imaginations, but developmental research on this topic has often been fragmented or narrowly focused on fantasy. However, there is growing appreciation for the role that imagination plays in cognitive and emotional development, as well as its link with children's understanding of the real world. With their imaginations, children mentally transcend time, place, and/or circumstance to think about what might have been, plan and anticipate the future, create fictional relationships and worlds, and consider alternatives to the actual experiences of their lives. The Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination provides a comprehensive overview of this broad new perspective by bringing together leading researchers whose findings are moving the study of imagination from the margins of mainstream psychology to a central role in current efforts to understand human thought. The topics covered include fantasy-reality distinctions, pretend play, magical thinking, narrative, anthropomorphism, counterfactual reasoning, mental time travel, creativity, paracosms, imaginary companions, imagination in non-human animals, the evolution of imagination, autism, dissociation, and the capacity to derive real life resilience from imaginative experiences. Many of the chapters include discussions of the educational, clinical, and legal implications of the research findings and special attention is given to suggestions for future research.
Author : Joshua J. Bowman
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498559034
This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreau’s political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreau’s relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.
Author : A. O. J. Cockshut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135027704
This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author’s opinion, in Dickens’ obsession with such topics as money, crowds and prisons which touch the life of everyone. From the deep fears of his childhood they became the main food for his imagination. As his creative mind worried over them, so his art developed. This process provided the driving force behind his work, and is at the root of his greatness as an artist.
Author : Lene Østermark-Johansen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192674692
Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature. Pater's short pieces of fiction, the so-called 'imaginary portraits', trace the development of the European self over a period of some two thousand years. They include elements of travelogue and art criticism, together with discourses on myth, history, and philosophy. Examining Pater's methods of composition, use of narrative voice, and construction of character, the book draws on all of Pater's oeuvre and includes discussions of a range of his unpublished manuscripts, essays, and reviews. It engages with Pater's dialogue with the visual portrait and problematises the oscillation between type and individual, the generic and the particular, which characterises both the visual and the literary portrait. Exploring Pater's involvement with nineteenth-century historiography and collective memory, the book positions Pater's fiction solidly within such nineteenth-century genres as the historical novel and the Bildungsroman, while also discussing the portraits as specimens of biographical writing. As the 'Ur-texts' from which generations of modernist life-writing developed, Pater's 'imaginary portraits' became pivotal for such modernist writers as Virginia Woolf and Harold Nicolson. Walter Pater's European Imagination explores such twentieth-century successors, together with French contemporaries like Sainte-Beuve and followers like Marcel Schwob.
Author : Dennis L Sepper
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400765078
This book discusses that imagination is as important to thinking and reasoning as it is to making and acting. By reexamining our philosophical and psychological heritage, it traces a framework, a conceptual topology, that underlies the most disparate theories: a framework that presents imagination as founded in the placement of appearances. It shows how this framework was progressively developed by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, and how it is reflected in more recent developments in theorists as different as Peirce, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Benjamin, and Bachelard. The conceptual topology of imagination incorporates logic, mathematics, and science as well as production, play, and art. Recognizing this topology can move us past the confusions to a unifying view of imagination for the future.
Author : Peter J. Capuano
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501772887
Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens's use of bodily idioms—"right-hand man," "shoulder to the wheel," "nose to the grindstone"—against the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English.
Author : Simon Biggs,Ariela Lowenstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136804731
The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. The advent of ageing populations may lead to increased conflict or solidarity in society, and provokes a profound ambivalence both in public and in the private sphere. In a new approach, Biggs and Lowenstein offer a critical examination of Generational Intelligence as one way of addressing these issues. How easy is it to put yourself in the shoes of someone of a different age group? What are the personal, interpersonal and social factors that affect our perceptions of the ‘age other’? What are the key issues facing families, workplaces and communities in an ageing society? This book sets out a way of thinking about interpersonal relations based on age, and the question of communication between people of different ages and generations. The book challenges existing orthodoxies for relations between adults of different ages and draws out steps that can be taken to increase understanding between generational groups. The authors outline a series of steps that can be taken to enhance Generational Intelligence, examine existing theories and social issues, and suggest new directions for sustainable relations between generational groups.
Author : Eva T. H. Brann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442273641
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.
Author : Michael Fishbane
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438402871
This innovative and original book examines the broad range of Jewish interpretation from antiquity through the medieval and renaissance periods. Its primary focus is on Midrash and midrashic creativity, including the entire range of nonlegal interpretations of the Bible. Considering Midrash as a literary and cultural form, the book explores aspects of classical Midrash from various angles including mythmaking and parables. The relationship between this exoteric mode and more esoteric forms in late antiquity is also examined. This work also focuses on some of the major genres of medieval biblical exegesis: plain sense, allegory, and mystical.
Author : Napoleon Hill,Dorothea Brande,Claude M. Bristol,Earl Nightingale
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365333996
How to Find the Strangest Secrets Hidden in Plain Sight In Earl Nightingale's Gold recording, he referred to what he considered key references for anyone who really wanted to understand the concepts he was discussing: "...read books that will help you - inspirational books like the Bible, Dorothea Brande's 'Wake Up and Live', 'The Magic of Believing' by Claude Bristol, 'Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill, and other books that instruct and inspire." During my own studies, I did just that - searching through the Internet to find copies of these books in order to see what he was talking about. Here I've brought back these three classics for your study as a set (leaving out only the Bible - as you probably have a copy already.) These are tools to help you on your journey. For once you've completely mastered this ""Strangest Secret"" life opens up to you and gives you whatever it is that you've ever wanted and dreamed of. (From the Introduction) Get Your Copy Now!
Author : Nicky Huys
Publisher : Nicky Huys Books
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
"History of the Imagination" delves into the fascinating evolution of human creativity and thought processes throughout the ages. From ancient civilizations to modern times, this book explores the ways in which imagination has shaped our understanding of the world, influenced artistic movements, and driven cultural development. Through a rich tapestry of historical anecdotes, philosophical insights, and artistic interpretations, readers will gain a profound understanding of the profound impact of imagination on human society. This thought-provoking journey through time invites readers to ponder the interconnectedness of imagination, history, and the human experience.
Author : Jane Kneller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139462174
In this book Jane Kneller focuses on the role of imagination as a creative power in Kant's aesthetics and in his overall philosophical enterprise. She analyzes Kant's account of imaginative freedom and the relation between imaginative free play and human social and moral development, showing various ways in which his aesthetics of disinterested reflection produce moral interests. She situates these aspects of his aesthetic theory within the context of German aesthetics of the eighteenth century, arguing that Kant's contribution is a bridge between early theories of aesthetic moral education and the early Romanticism of the last decade of that century. In so doing, her book brings the two most important German philosophers of Enlightenment and Romanticism, Kant and Novalis, into dialogue. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both Kant studies and German philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
