The World of the Imagination

Sum and Substance

By (author) Eva T. H. Brann

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Publication date:

16 March 1993

Length of book:

824 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781461646112

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.

Preface
Introduction

Part I: Philosophy: The Nature of the Imagination
Chapter 1: Ancient Writers
Chapter 2: Medieval Writers
Chapter 3: Modern Writers
Chapter 4: Twentieth-Century Writers (with Debates and Developments)
Chapter 5: Conclusions: Why an Image-Forming Imagination Should, After All, Be Affirmed

Part II: Psychology: The Having of Imagery
Chapter 1: Cognitive Science: The Setting of Imagery-Investigations
Chapter 2: The Science of Mental Imagery: Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 3: The Science of Memory: Storage and Retrieval of Visual Imagery
Chapter 4: Children’s Imagery
Chapter 5: Various Imagery-Topics
Chapter 6: The Organs of the Imagination: Eye and Brain

Part III: Logic: The Being of Images
Chapter 1: Real Images: Real Depictions of Real Objects
Chapter 2: Mental Images: Unreal Pictures of Real Objects
Chapter 3: Imaginary Images: Unreal Pictures of Unreal Objects

Part IV: Literature: The Translation of Imagining
Chapter 1: Visions into Words and Words into Vision
Chapter 2: Literary Creation: Imagining Apotheosized
Chapter 3: Literary Language: Two Figures of Speech
Chapter 4: Literary Imagining: Two Genres of Fiction

Part V: Depiction: The Theater of Imagining
Chapter 1: The Space of Imagining
Chapter 2: Thoughtful Space: The Geometry of Imagining
Chapter 3: Aesthetic Space: Pictures and Paintings

Part VI: The Worldly Imagination: Imaginary and Imaginative Visions
Chapter 1: Theology: Contrary Estimations of the Imagination
Chapter 2: No-Places and Past Times: Imaginary Worlds
Chapter 3: Places and Passions: The Imaginative World
Conclusion: Imaginative Projection and Thoughtful Penetration: Transparence and Transcendence
Coda: The Life of the Imagination
Index

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