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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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  • various dialectical sources and his own fertile imagination to invent a unique and charming backwoods-patois, heavy on the nonsense, to fit his cartoon ...
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  • him. These images captured the popular imagination; many of them were based ... I never had the feeling that my imagination was rich enough to invent ...
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  • and the emotions that naturally accompany vain imagination. This theory of the impossibility of knowledge is the first and the most thorough exposition ...
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  • *Faivre, Antoine. Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. *Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: ...
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  • Fur seals have in various ways captured the human imagination and added to the wonder of nature, particularly as seen in the massive congregations ...
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  • Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at ... , characterized by wild leaps of imagination and a deep cynicism, tempered ...
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  • cases, such as "The White Lady," his imagination went beyond reality, and his interpretation of the artwork was very misleading. Despite ...
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  • this view of the virtuousness of poetic imagination can be connected directly ... can be achieved purely through the imagination—by engaging in the creative ...
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  • * Ortmeier, Anno. Taste Und Imagination: Untersuchungen zur Literaturtheorie Joseph Addisons. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1982. ISBN 3820457054 ...
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  • Gifted with a most subtle and introspective imagination, he turned his talents in mid-career from incomparable lyric explorations of the inner life ...
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  • as a location in humanity's shared imagination. ==Location hypotheses== ... bound by space or time in the popular imagination. Atlantis has become the ...
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  • (2 Macc 6:18–7:42) particularly caught the imagination of medieval Christians. Several churches are dedicated to the "Maccabeean martyrs," ...
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  • and how it moves. Through the sheer power of his imagination he put himself into the scenes of his stories, whether it be Sherwood Forest (Robin Hood ...
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  • The Pueblo Potter: A Study of Creative Imagination in Primitive Art. (New ... *__________. The Pueblo potter; A study of creative imagination in ...
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  • in their depth, insight, originality, and imagination. ==Background== Hazlitt came from a branch of Irish Protestant stock that moved in the reign ...
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  • the lasting power of some myths in the human imagination. Some other species of plants also are commonly called spinach, including New Zealand ...
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  • for 1938; a bout that caught the imagination of the world as a contest between the Nazi philosophy of racial superiority and the American value ...
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  • and parents. She lived through her imagination, beginning to write poetry and stories at a very young age. She also found comfort and solace ...
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  • Unlike most insects, ladybugs have caught people's imagination and are generally held in high regard. In some cultures, they are considered ...
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  • on Eco's scholarly guesses and imagination. It is virtually impossible ... is a peasant lad endowed with a vivid imagination and a most unusual capacity ...
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  • P. Spanos, and John F. Chaves, Hypnosis, Imagination, and Human Potentialities ... favorable motivation (Sarbin), active imagination and positive cognitive ...
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  • perspective, in terms of the religious imagination, was to reduce the relevance ... in the classical religious imagination. Certain historical factors ...
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  • British people would try to exercise a little imagination – picture the whole miserable scene. Entire villages rooted up and dumped in a strange bare place. ...
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  • these experiences to an overactive imagination. He did, after all, have ... explained or dismissed as simply "imagination." He could sleep ...
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  • it does not include sensible perception or the imagination. ... region there is the human power of imagination which perceives objects ...
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  • quot; saying "Whether right or wrong, … imagination is shaped by the pictures seen… Consequently, they lead to stereotypes that are hard to ...
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  • has had such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Three of their nine children would enter national politics, and one would become the ...
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  • should be immediate to anyone with a systematic imagination. Scholastic classifications are regarded with more than a little skepticism, they still ...
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  • Category:Psychologists Category:Biography Category:Image wanted Calkins, Mary Whiton Mary Whiton Calkins (March 30, 1863 – February 26, 1930 ...
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  • the moist, memory; the hot, imagination. Dividing the intelligent soul into these three faculties, he showed, after the manner later adopted ...
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  • intelligence and cognition, imagination and emotions, depression and mental illness, and perception and understanding. ===Television=== ...
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  • had been created by the popular imagination, based on messianic expectations ... had been created by the popular imagination, based on messianic expectations ...
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  • is known as a maelstrom. In the popular imagination, but only rarely in reality, can they have the dangerous effect of destroying boats. Examples ...
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  • through the light of the poetic imagination, a feat summarized beautifully in this brief passage from "Of Asphodel, That Greeny Flower": ...
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  • | slogan = Imagination at Work | company_logo = [[Image:GeneralElectricSign ... (GE Inspira), and a new slogan, "imagination at work" replacing ...
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  • These stabilizing influences allowed his imagination free reign while his conduct remained under the moral suasion of positive influences. ...
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  • *Neugroschel, Joachim (ed.). The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0815628729 ...
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  • The image of the goddess sparked her imagination and resulted in the creation of a solo dance, Radha, telling the story of a mortal maid who ...
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  • * Copland, Aaron. Music and Imagination. == Selected works == * Scherzo Humoristique: The Cat and the Mouse (1920) * Four Motets (1922) ...
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  • to mix anguish, philosophical thought, an imagination of death, and a narrative where everything seems to almost happen is often particularly discomforting ...
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  • of reality in a way that the senses and imagination are not. Yet Spinoza held ... general rationalist distinction between imagination and the intellect) meant ...
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  • In their book, Geometry and the Imagination David Hilbert and Stephan Cohn-Vossen describe eleven properties of the sphere and discuss whether ...
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  • are predominantly sexual in the popular imagination. All of these connotations are together regarded as one of the four ends of man (the purusharthas ...
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  • Mammoths have captured the human imagination and added to the wonder of nature, appearing in popular literature, movies, and art. However, they ...
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  • Other results are consciousness and imagination. Thomas Hobbes describes the creation of “Markes, or Notes of remembrance” (Leviathan Ch ...
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  • Path of Knowledge: ibn Arabi’s Metaphysics of Imagination. New York: State University of New York Press, 1989. * Hirtenstein, Stephen. The Unlimited ...
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  • than Ovid to transmit the riches of the Greek imagination to posterity. ==Legacy== In his own time Ovid's contributions to verse were largely ...
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  • " had succeeded in totally capturing the imagination of the public. ==Kidnapping== The Lindberghs' first born, Charles Augustus Lindbergh ...
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  • effigy, in the person of a priestess, or in imagination only. In that case the griffins would have been purely a symbol of divinity rather than a heraldic ...
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  • a client is through the expression of imagination in creative work and integrating ... Designed to elucidate the action of the imagination. Kessinger Publishing ...
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  • volume 3, p.130-133, 200 ("Christian imagination was quick to harmonize and produce Jude Thaddeus, a conflation that has no basis in reality.") ...
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  • one of the most popular works of the imagination in Persian. Although imbued ... to the Western media." This type of imagination "will probably be ...
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  • in such a way that it also called up ideas from imagination. His bias towards the descriptive method, combined with his special interest in mathematics ...
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  • deity's position in the Chinese religious imagination was replaced by Tian (天), a more distant and moralistic figure. This being said, ...
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  • my first visit to the theatre fired my imagination, but I was not swept off my feet by that strong impulse for a stage career which precipitated ...
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  • pirates who, in the popular modern imagination, operated outside the ... In the popular modern imagination, pirates of the classical period ...
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  • ancient and the modern. In the former all was imagination and improbability: in the latter, nature is always intended to be, and sometimes has been, ...
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  • and apperception," rather than imagination. The original scoring system emphasizes perceptual factors—for example, whether a response ...
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  • *Truth and Imagination (1997). University Press of America. ISBN 076180921X *The Acts of Trinity (1996). University Press of America. ISBN 0761803637 ...
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  • and Osip Brik, promoted practical art over the imagination. The emerging Soviet cinema, which included early film genius Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov ...
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  • are the image of the ideal woman in the fiery imagination of mortals.Pierre Dubois, Claudine Sabatier, and Roland Sabatier, The Great Encyclopedia Of ...
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  • a cultural history. [Landscapes of the imagination]. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195309577 *Mayle, Peter. 1990. A year in Provence ...
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  • of our faculties, stimulates the memory and imagination, and gives rise to the passions. The passions, also, are nothing but sensation transformed ...
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  • paleontological find that captured the imagination of the greatest evolutionists, who used it in debates to support various theories. Its finding ...
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  • and after that, were left to the imagination of the audience. As with other types of drama of the period, the stage was typically on the same ...
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  • Imagination, to Artaud, was reality; dreams, thoughts, and delusions are no less real than the "outside" world. Reality appears to ...
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  • lyrically and evocatively of lands an imagination away, worlds he anchored ... world of science fiction and fantasy and imagination he is immortal." ...
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  • The Golden Bough, not only captured the imagination of the general public, but also influenced numerous scholars of diverse fields, including ...
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  • to a mysterious creature that captured the imagination and attention of the public. For decades after the story, expeditions from around the world ...
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  • It appeared Irving had tapped into the popular imagination concerning the Book of Revelation and the Last Days. However, his exercise of the ...
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  • of reading book after book, allowing his imagination to come alive. He often ... escaping from the school through his imagination. Lewis would refer to ...
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  • Those deities that captured the Greek imagination, such as Apollo ... less about the religious and cosmic imagination of the ancient Greeks. ...
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  • fit to her figure but leaving something to the imagination. I've been to colleges and asked young guys about this, and they say the same thing ...
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  • in height not by physical limitations or imagination but rather by a limit imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration to protect air traffic ...
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  • activities. It was here that his imagination began to develop. He would perform private rites in the garden, and would dance for his mother’s ...
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  • between himself and his society, or imagination and mathematic truths. ===Utopian Society=== The Utopian Society depicted in We is called One ...
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  • With Man Ray, you were free to do what your imagination conjured, and that kind of encouragement was wonderful"—artist and photographer Naomi ...
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  • better calculated, than ours, to exalt the imagination?" ... the painting in the studio, allowing his imagination free rein which gave his ...
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  • it was becoming more popular in public imagination. The connection between ... in people. Perhaps it is an overactive imagination projecting onto the infinity ...
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  • dance, this is a film of surpassing imagery and imagination. ... with. Reality isn’t cinema. Cinema is imagination. He had a passion for ...
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  • between the flighty world of the artistic imagination, and the material world. In 1824, while still at Gottingen, Heine took a break from his ...
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  • types of crucifixes, limited only by the imagination of the artists. Listed below are only two examples of the plethora of varieties. ...
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  • almost every instance they show an artistic imagination which is rare in Herrad's contemporaries. Herrad's poetry accompanies various ...
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  • remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown." At his ...
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  • During the rest of the century he figured in the popular imagination as an incorrigible practical joker. His sarcastic wit made him some enemies ...
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  • years. Signs of Roald's unique imagination began to appear at this ... to be the product of his own fertile imagination. His most famous character ...
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  • Robert Bloch, The Science Fiction Novel: Imagination and Social Criticism. ... fiction film and the technological imagination. Technology does impact ...
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  • American musical idiom that would capture the imagination of America's youth. Despite the often-overt eroticism of rock and roll, which caused consternation ...
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  • time to instill pride and to stir the imagination. What took hold of the ... he left an indelible imprint on the imagination extending to the present ...
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  • to capture widespread attention and imagination proves it to be a powerful ... idea of sasquatch clearly captures the imagination of the populace as a whole ...
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  • *Peters, Catherine. Thackeray’s Universe: Shifting Worlds of Imagination and Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. ISBN 0571147119 ...
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  • #New poetics and analysis of poetic imagination In his analyses, the lived experiences were taken as the given facts and became the objects of ...
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  • *Bronowski, Jacob. The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination. Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978 ...
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  • on this document as well as oral tradition or imagination. The Protoevangelium was once honored as scripture by Christian churches among the Greeks ...
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  • Goethe's impressions and set his imagination afire. During his Leipzig ... "There is nothing worse than imagination without taste." ...
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  • #039;s Cape voyage: private science, public imagination, and the ambitions of empire. Burlington, VT: Ashgate. ISBN 0754635589 ==External links== ...
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  • masterpiece but worked from his imagination, his fellow workers could not complete it. Because of this, Gaudí is known to many in Spain as ...
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  • *The Religious Imagination: A Study in Psychoanalysis and Jewish Theology. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1971. ISBN 080701141X ‎ *My Brother Paul ...
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  • the commedia dell'arte and the modern imagination. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993. ISBN 9780271009285 ...
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