The Perverse Imagination

The Perverse Imagination

Author: Irving H. Buchen

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13:

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Bundel essays gewijd aan de betekenis van sadisme, pornografie, homoseksualiteit en parafilieën voor de letteren. Bevat een aantal bijdr. over Sade, een artikel van Gore Vidal over pornografie, een beschouwing over het werk van John Rechy, en een essay van Kate Millett over Henry Miller, Norman Mailer en Jean Genet.


The Conversion of Imagination

The Conversion of Imagination

Author: Matthew W. Maguire

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2006-03-31

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780674021884

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Maguire uncovers a history of French thought that casts the imagination as a dominant faculty in our experience of the world. Original and thought-provoking, this book will interest a range of readers across intellectual history, political theory, literary and cultural studies, and the history of religious thought.


Analyst of the Imagination

Analyst of the Imagination

Author: Jenny Pearson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-06-04

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0429910789

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Charles Rycroft's lucid jargon-free approach to psychoanalysis inspired a whole generation. Taking inspiration from many fields outside psychoanalysis, including history, literature, linguistics and ethology, he established the important link between mental health and the imagination, creating a broader perspective and encouraging free thinking. This solitary and creative "rebel" rarely received the recognition he deserved, but this collection of articles and papers by people who felt the benefit of his ever-curious, expanding wealth of knowledge, goes some way to acknowledging the debt owed to him, and introducing a new generation to this innovative analyst.


The Literary Imagination

The Literary Imagination

Author: Derek Traversi

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9780874131987

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The essays collected in this book include two each on Dante and Chaucer that appear for the first time in print and three on Shakespeare that are based on Dr. Traversi's Approach to Shakespeare. Dante's Purgatorio, Chaucer's the Franklin's Tale, and Shakespeare's the Tempest are among the texts analyzed here.


The African Imagination

The African Imagination

Author: Abiola Irele

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780195086195

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This collection of essays from eminent scholar F. Abiola Irele provides a comprehensive formulation of what he calls an "African imagination" manifested in the oral traditions and modern literature of Africa and the Black Diaspora. The African Imagination includes Irele's probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hampat B , and Ahmadou Kourouma, among others, as well as examinations of the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West. Taken as a whole, this volume makes a superb introduction to African literature and to the work of one of its leading interpreters.


Novel Minds

Novel Minds

Author: R. Tierney-Hynes

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-11

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1137033290

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Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new story of eighteenth-century reading. The impressionable mind and mutable identity of the romance reader haunt eighteenth-century definitions of the self, and the seductions of fiction insist on making an appearance in philosophy.


The Collective Imagination

The Collective Imagination

Author: Peter Murphy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-23

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1317037839

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The Collective Imagination explores the social foundations of the human imagination. In a lucid and wide-ranging discussion, Peter Murphy looks at the collective expression of the imagination in our economies, universities, cities, and political systems, providing a tour-de-force account of the power of the imagination to unite opposites and find similarities among things that we ordinarily think of as different. It is not only individuals who possess the power to imagine; societies do as well. A compelling journey through various peak moments of creation, this book examines the cities and nations, institutions and individuals who ply the paraphernalia of paradoxes and dialogues, wry dramaturgy and witty expression that set the act of creation in motion. Whilst exploring the manner in which, through the media of pattern, figure, and shape, and the miracles of metaphor, things come into being, Murphy recognises that creative periods never last: creative forms invariably tire; inventive centres inevitably fade. The Collective Imagination explores the contemporary dilemmas and historic pathos caused by this-as cities and societies, periods and generations slip behind in the race for economic and social discovery. Left bewildered and bothered, and struggling to catch up, they substitute empty bombast, faded glory, chronic dullness or stolid glumness for initiative, irony, and inventiveness. A comprehensive audit of the creativity claims of the post-modern age - that finds them badly wanting and looks to the future - The Collective Imagination will appeal to sociologists and philosophers concerned with cultural theory, cultural and media studies and aesthetics.


Observing the Erotic Imagination

Observing the Erotic Imagination

Author: Robert J. Stoller

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780300054736

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Argues that most adult sexual behavior is influenced by childhood experiences, and looks at perversion, fetishes, obscenity, homosexuality, transvestism, and psychoanalytic treatment


The Wake of Imagination

The Wake of Imagination

Author: Richard Kearney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1134812604

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With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.


Deleuze and Guattari

Deleuze and Guattari

Author: Ronald Bogue

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-03-07

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1134974795

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The philosopher Giles Deleuze and the psychoanalyst and political activist Felix Guattari have been recognised as among the most important intellectual figures of their generation. This is the first book-length study of their works in English, one that provides an overview of their thought and of its bearing on the central issues of contemporary literary criticism and theory. From Deleuze's 'philosophy of difference' to Deleuze and Guattari's 'philosophy of schizoanalytic desire', this study traces the ideas of the two writers across a wide range of disciplines - from psychoanalysis and Marxist politics to semiotics, aesthetics and linguistics. Professor Bogue provides lucid readings, accessible to specialist and non-specialist alike, of several major works: Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962), Difference and Reception (1968), and Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). Besides elucidating the basic structure of Deleuze and Guattari's often difficult thought, with its complex and often puzzling array of terms, this study also shows how theory influences critical practice in their analyses of the fiction of Proust, Sacher-Masoch and Kafka.