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  • in his anthology The Sociological Imagination (1961)—are of particular ... together by the "sociological imagination," which enables its ...
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  • history by using “historical imagination” to “re-enact” the ... an inaugural lecture on The Historical Imagination in October of that year ...
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  • which the mind can apprehend through the imagination. "Poetry/ Exceeding ... belief, or tradition, but through poetic imagination. The imagination conjures ...
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  • agree, by differentiating between the role of imagination and the role of reason in human understanding. Aristotle contends that individual, species ...
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  • field of study which trains the imagination quite as systematically ... Hart. Northrop Frye and the Theoretical Imagination. (New York and London: ...
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  • 1950 collection of essays, The Liberal Imagination, is often cited as the ... first collection of essays, The Liberal Imagination, was published in 1950 ...
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  • and the Gothic Tradition." Gothic Imagination: Essays in Dark Romanticism ... and the Gothic Tradition." Gothic Imagination: Essays in Dark Romanticism ...
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  • (1711), and later the Pleasures of the Imagination. All three Englishmen ... is that the three pleasures of the imagination that he identified; greatness ...
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  • of the nature of poetry and the imagination are particularly important ... in the Lyrical Ballads: A triumph of the imagination over the dull poverty ...
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  • love of language and a rich, sensuous imagination, all of which contrasts ... rationalism and stressed the individual imagination as an authoritative voice ...
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  • *Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy and Imagination ... History, Gender & The Southern Imagination. Athens and London: University ...
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  • spirit, but shows a unique and distinct imagination and lyricism. This is ... (1892), which shows a high degree of imagination and lyricism. Her onyx ...
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  • the same laws as gases. He believed that imagination plays an important role ... van 't Hoff concluded that imagination plays an all-important ...
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  • ==The Guardian in the popular imagination== The paper is sometimes referred to as The Grauniad, a name which originated with the satirical magazine ...
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  • have been only a figment of the fertile imagination of Greek scholars and ... elements were combined together in the imagination of the poets, scholars ...
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  • Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory (Duke University Press ... *Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory. Duke University Press ...
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  • them be viewed together in popular imagination and actual pilgrimage ... object of the national Hindu religious imagination has increased significantly ...
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  • realness of life into the world of the imagination—and this she does. Time ... the imagination"—above insolence and triviality and can present ...
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  • he had a quick mind, and such a fertile imagination that it made flowers grow ... * Balladur, Laura Cecilia. Imagination, Physiology, and the Dynamics ...
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  • poetry, dreams, psychoanalysis, and the imagination. The Psychoanalysis of ... Bachelard: Critic of Science and the Imagination. Routledge, 2001. ISBN ...
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  • Bob Campbell. Such images captured the imagination of the public. ... Bob Campbell. Such images captured the imagination of the public. ...
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  • Wordsworth's poetry of nature and imagination. Note Wordsworth's ... to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things ...
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  • a vision of space travel into the public imagination. In this work, Oberth ... the subject of rocketry that sparked the imagination of a generation of Germans ...
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  • * Gustafson, Richard F. The imagination of spring: the poetry of Afanasy Fet. Yale University Press, 1966. * Lotman, Lydia M. (Translated by Margaret ...
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  • Faickney Osborn in a book called Applied Imagination, in which he proposed ... *Osborn, Alex F. Applied Imagination: Principles and Procedures of ...
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  • Fact is not to be worshiped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; ...
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  • a meal for Sakka.Lewis Hyde. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of ... *Hyde, Lewis. The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property ...
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  • The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts ... interest of a story where the intense imagination of the writer makes characters ...
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  • source of the mood is left to the viewer's imagination. ... Grau. Edward Hopper and the American Imagination. New York: Whitney Museum ...
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  • al-mushtarak), retention (al-khayal), imagination (al-mutakhayyila) and ... of all sensory perception, but have imagination which allows them to desire ...
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  • that is both stimulating to their imagination and keeps them safe from harm. ... allow children to be creative and use their imagination. ...
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  • Sauron. The sacred and the feminine: Imagination and sexual difference ... 2008. The sacred and the feminine: Imagination and sexual difference ...
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  • there. This soon captured the European imagination, and filled it literature ... their exploits soon "captured the imagination, fed the fantasies and ...
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  • ecumene, inspired the religious imagination of a people toiling through ... all of which combined in the public imagination of Africa/Asia in the ...
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  • apocalypse shaped the eschatological imagination of Christendom throughout ... * Collins, John Joseph. The Apocalyptic Imagination: A Introduction ...
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  • are often left to the listeners' imagination. The music is often celestial, such as when the title depicts stars, planets, or deep space ...
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  • Norman Davidson, Astronomy and the Imagination: A New Approach to ... * Davidson, Norman. Astronomy and the Imagination: A New Approach ...
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  • * Cottom, Daniel. The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott. New York: Cambridge University Press ...
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  • and unified by a single process, the imagination. This idea was often discarded ... In psychology, the subject of imagination was explored extensively ...
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  • Gogh has to this day on the contemporary imagination." Precursor to the current hold of van Gogh in public imagination. Bernice ...
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  • of France spawned Alexandre's vivid imagination for adventure and heroes ... of high adventure that captured the imagination of the French public, ...
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  • social order… one has to curtail the imagination; by doing this one is ... allowed him to become the voice and imagination of a world which was slowly ...
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  • but were also influential on the public imagination, particularly as it was ... based on existing writings and his imagination, rather than actual contact ...
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  • perspective, in terms of the religious imagination, was to reduce the relevance ... would suggested themselves to the mythic imagination as suitable aggressors ...
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  • she was gifted storyteller with a wonderful imagination and sometimes altered the facts to make her adventures more exciting to the listener. ...
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  • or "free harmony" between imagination and understanding. This ... as a work of human reason and imagination that may transcend the ...
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  • # That even the most superior mind and the most powerful imagination ... views also attracted Oscar Wilde's imagination in the late nineteenth century. ...
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  • faculties, such as memory, reason, and imagination, are not yet secure from ... absorbed in God, and only the memory and imagination are left open to the physical ...
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  • Blake valued imagination above reason, but unlike later Romantics ... up by his statement that "The imagination is not a State: it is ...
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  • of the soul, which are the will, the imagination, the moral principle (which is both passive and active) *Alexis (1787), a philosophical dialogue ...
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  • spirituality, sexuality, creativity, and imagination. Arenas' ... rural existence, and had to rely on his imagination to survive. The supposed ...
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  • it was Jones' discovery that caught the imagination of later scholars and became the semi-mythical origin of modern historical comparative linguistics ...
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  • Wayang is an Indonesian word for theater. Bayang, the Javanese word for shadow or imagination, also connotes "spirit." When the term ...
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  • Steven Swann Jones, The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination ... * Jones, Steven Swann. The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination ...
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  • Ballads set out to achieve a triumph of the imagination over the dull poverty of the mind. Coleridge's project was a wild and truly imaginative ...
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  • formalism, stimulated one's imagination and emotions, and for ... Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination. Fordham University Press ...
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  • This and a fertile inventive imagination were the cause of his founding and then abandoning so many ventures in his lifetime, a characteristic ...
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  • an entirely alternate world of sheer imagination that remains one of the ... describes: "My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures ...
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  • Romanticism also stressed the power of imagination, which encouraged freedom ... of nature and reverence for the human imagination, which could discern beauty ...
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  • htm "World needs imagination,"] Yomiuri Shimbun ... pdf "The Dialectics of Realist Imagination: Adorno's Aesthetics ...
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  • Mithraic overtones, remained in the popular imagination; many Early Renaissance Sienese and Florentine paintings of the Nativity, as well as Byzantine ...
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  • and blights to which a youthful imagination could be subjected.|George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine, IV, i. Kant’s contemporary Johann Gottfried ...
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  • society, and legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority ... of reason, Romanticism emphasized imagination and strong emotion. Rather ...
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  • Hume and Kant by using Hume’s concept of the imagination as the function that joins reason and the senses in the same manner in which Kant used the ...
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  • rein to the harrowing and terrifying side of her imagination; "The Birds," "Don't Look Now," "The Apple Tree," and ...
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  • emphasizing the actor's use of imagination and belief in the given ... given circumstances; the exercise of the imagination; and the use of physical ...
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  • claimed a special place in the human imagination because of their several ... worked together to capture the human imagination and nurture a rich lode ...
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  • was characterized by the free expression of imagination and emotion, displays of instrumental virtuosity, and experimentation with orchestral form. ...
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  • as well as poetic; secondly, the imagination cannot alone produce art ... culture that taught artists to use their imagination to compose their pictures ...
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  • very idea of God is a product of human imagination. … I do not recognize ... very idea of God is a product of human imagination. … I do not recognize ...
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  • ideas (something we do every day in our imagination), so he believed that ... aren't ones that we make in our imagination. Berkeley noted that the ...
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  • mind, such as understanding, reasoning, imagination, and feelings, are integrated ... of all the faculties of man including imagination, thinking, feeling, willing ...
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  • pantheon throughout the centuries. In the popular imagination, she may have been Anu's most important consort, although she was also notorious for ...
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  • from the Bible, and themes that capture the imagination. ==Life== Few facts are certain in Malory's history. The antiquary John Leland believed ...
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  • in sensu); and though he characterized the imagination (phantasia) as a counterpart of the senses, essentially the same in man and animal, he admitted ...
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  • personal wealth or, by a small stretch of the imagination, the conquests of Don Juan—will attenuate conformity to the institutional norms governing ...
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  • identified as figments of his own imagination, commenting in the first-person on the characters in entirely third-person stories. Kundera was ...
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  • posit that Islam discourages the creative imagination. The charge that Muhammad copied parts of the Qur’an from al-Qays, made by various Christian ...
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  • they continue to live in the human imagination and add to the wonder of life. ==Overview and description== ===Plesiosauria=== [[Image:Simolestes1DB ...
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  • mind is still active, as is the imagination. At this level of samadhi, the mind has become quiet and given up its desires. Vikalpa leads to the ...
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  • It is impossible to estimate precisely how much creative imagination, or fictionalizing, was used in ancient Chinese historical narratives, but ...
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  • to the Jansenists really existed only in the imagination of the Jesuits. His letters were violently attacked by Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin, an erratic ...
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  • Arachnids since ancient times have captured the human imagination, for example as objects of superstitious fear. Arachnids make their appearance ...
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  • Few trees have captured the human imagination the way that the giant ... ==The Redwoods in Human Imagination== “Do behold the King Sequoia ...
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  • of being sentimental, his hymns exhibit both imagination and universalism of that set them beyond ordinary nineteenth century hymnody. Best known is probably ...
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  • suicide haunted John Berryman's poetic imagination, and the subject is addressed directly and indirectly throughout his oeuvre. ...
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  • Fossils discoveries of this mysterious animal have fueled the imagination and curiosity of philosophers, theologians, scientists, and others ...
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  • #039;s image as a seductress in the Christian imagination. ==Interpretations== Mothers used to threaten their children with the story of Lamia. ...
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  • Ibn Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination. (Albany: State University ... Ibn Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination. Albany: State University ...
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  • a figment of the author's own imagination. The very idea of communicating ... and everyone else is just a figment of imagination. The problem with this ...
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  • must be open to the full range of imagination according to the Hegelian ... in developing methods to liberate the imagination. However, they embraced ...
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  • Bacchus/Dionysus was an important figure in the religious imagination of the Greeks and Romans, as he was thought to represent the union between ...
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  • task. It was further concluded that experience, imagination, and memories of abstract and concrete varieties were required in grand master chess. ...
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  • means 1,000 Buddhas. Not much imagination is needed to see naturally formed Buddha statues in the rocks that dominate the forest. ...
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  • the object through the power of his imagination and the degree of his skill. ... These excursions into the realm of imagination point more to Surrealist ...
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  • C.S. Lewis and the scholarship of imagination in E. Nesbit and Rider Haggard] Findarticles.com. Retrieved June 20, 2008. series and mentions the ...
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  • Europe. Ancient Egypt captured the European imagination. Egypt, too, developed a relationship with France and with French culture that irrevocably changed ...
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  • in the book are better understood with the imagination than with logical reason; in time, with reflection and practice, imagery and reason converge ...
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  • Few plants have had such a hold on the human imagination as the rose ... rose has had a strong hold on the human imagination, most often as a symbol ...
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  • * Hankins, Thomas L., Robert J. Silverman. Instruments and the imagination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995. ISBN 0691029970. ...
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