The Realistic Imagination
Title | The Realistic Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | George Levine |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0226475514 |
In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free.
The Realistic Imagination
Title | The Realistic Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | George Levine |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1981-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780226475509 |
In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free.
Imaginative Realism
Title | Imaginative Realism PDF eBook |
Author | James Gurney |
Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2009-10-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0740785508 |
A examination of time-tested methods used by artists since the Renaissance to make realistic pictures of imagined things.
Maps of the Imagination
Title | Maps of the Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Turchi |
Publisher | Trinity University Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1595340947 |
Maps of the Imagination takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as a metaphor, fiction writer Peter Turchi considers writing as a combination of exploration and presentation, all the while serving as an erudite and charming guide. He compares the way a writer leads a reader though the imaginary world of a story, novel, or poem to the way a mapmaker charts the physical world. "To ask for a map," says Turchi, "is to say, ‘Tell me a story.’ " With intelligence and wit, the author looks at how mapmakers and writers deal with blank space and the blank page; the conventions they use or consciously disregard; the role of geometry in maps and the parallel role of form in writing; how both maps and writing serve to re-create an individual’s view of the world; and the artist’s delicate balance of intuition with intention. A unique combination of history, critical cartography, personal essay, and practical guide to writing, Maps of the Imagination is a book for writers, for readers, and for anyone interested in creativity. Colorful illustrations and Turchi’s insightful observations make his book both beautiful and a joy to read.
The Realistic Imagination
Title | The Realistic Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | George L. Levine |
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Pages | 367 |
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ISBN | 9780608090177 |
Moral Imagination
Title | Moral Imagination PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Johnson |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2014-12-10 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022622323X |
Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation. Expanding his innovative studies of human reason in Metaphors We Live By and The Body in the Mind, Johnson provides the tools for more practical, realistic, and constructive moral reflection.
Imagine a World
Title | Imagine a World PDF eBook |
Author | Rob Gonsalves |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2015-09-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1481449745 |
Rob Gonsalves—master of magical realism—presents another mesmerizing picture book in his Imagine a… series, that will “stimulate wonder and imagination” (Booklist, starred review). Imagine a world where the sky becomes the Earth; where a waterfall freefalls to become dancing women; where you can cut mountains out of curtains, and ships sail into the sky. This amazing world is what Rob Gonsalves has created. His vision inspires and astounds—and he wants to share that vision with you. With stunning illustrations that stretch the limits of the imagination, this fourth installment in the Imagine a… series explores a world that is boundless and beautiful, inviting you to imagine a world of possibilities—to imagine this world.