Author : Molly Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,41 MB
Release : 2014-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019981239X
Looks at how stories & imagination come together in our daily lives, influencing not only our thoughts about what we see and do, but also our contemplation of what is possible and what our limitations are.
Author : Anna Abraham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108429246
The human imagination manifests in countless different forms. We imagine the possible and the impossible. How do we do this so effortlessly? Why did the capacity for imagination evolve and manifest with undeniably manifold complexity uniquely in human beings? This handbook reflects on such questions by collecting perspectives on imagination from leading experts. It showcases a rich and detailed analysis on how the imagination is understood across several disciplines of study, including anthropology, archaeology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and the arts. An integrated theoretical-empirical-applied picture of the field is presented, which stands to inform researchers, students, and practitioners about the issues of relevance across the board when considering the imagination. With each chapter, the nature of human imagination is examined - what it entails, how it evolved, and why it singularly defines us as a species.
Author : Paul Ricœur
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451415704
The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.
Author : Michael White
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2023-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780648060086
This volume is a collection of papers that were published by David Epston and Michael White between 1989 and 1991.¿The purpose in making these papers available in one source book is so that they can be read together. They cover a range of subjects including:¿personal reminiscence¿particular therapeutic practices¿practical approaches to various problems¿theoretical, political and philosophical considerations¿structures and issues pertaining to training and supervision¿- processes of questioning in the co-authorship of preferred stories.¿One of the aspects of the work reported in this collection that is of central importance to Michael and David is the spirit of adventure. These papers will introduce readers to this spirit and encourage readers to embark on further adventures of their own.
Author : Christopher Comer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350127817
Stories can inspire love, anger, fear and nostalgia – but what is going on in our brains when this happens? And how do our minds conjure up worlds and characters from the words we read on the page? Rapid advances in the scientific understanding of the brain have cast new light on how we engage with literature. This book – collaboratively written by an experienced neuroscientist and literary critic and writer – explores these new insights. Key concepts in neuroscience are first introduced for non-specialists and a range of literary texts by writers such as Ian McEwan, Jim Crace and E.L. Doctorow are read in light of the latest scientific thought on the workings of the mind and brain. Brain, Mind, and the Narrative Imagination demonstrates how literature taps into deep structures of memory and emotion that lie at the heart of our humanity. It will be of interest to readers of all sorts and students from both the humanities and the sciences.
Author :
Publisher : 3dtotal Publishing
Page : pages
File Size : 33,24 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781912843312
Author : Roma Chatterji
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000736970
This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist’s rendition of a comic book story, and a commercial project to re-imagine two of India’s most famous epics – the Ramayana and the Mahabharata – as science fiction and superhero tales. It discusses comic books and self-published graphic novels; bardic performance aided with painted scrolls and commercial superhero comics; myths, folklore, and science fiction; and different pictorial styles and genres of graphic narration and storytelling. It also examines the actual process of the creation of comics besides discussions with artists on the tools and location of the comics medium as well as the method and impact of translation and crossover genres in such narratives. With its clear, lucid style and rich illustrations, the book will be useful to scholars and researchers of sociology, anthropology, visual culture and media, and South Asian studies, as well as those working on art history, religion, popular culture, graphic novels, art and design, folk culture, literature, and performing arts.
Author : Marta Arteaga
Publisher : Cuento de Luz
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 40,6 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 8415619316
Winner of the Living Now Awards 2013, International Latino Book Awards 2013 and Moonbeam Children Books Awards 2013. There is a door in every one of us that leads to our imagination, a world where anything is possible. Dou you dare to embark on the most wonderful journey to our inner-self? One day when I was reading my story, I breathed in one of the words and something magical happened... I entered my imagination! We have always been told about the power of imagination, but what is imagination? How does it work? There is a magical place where you can always be yourself. In there you can turn on your light and illuminate your life with it. That place is your imagination. Your imagination has a life and a voice of its own. It is like a voice that speaks inside of you and paints everything around you with vivid colors. Within your imagination you are the king or queen of your creation. Open the door and discover how that place where we can always be ourselves is like and how does it work. And within your imagination... what is there? Read the first pages of Inside my imagination here below:
Author : Leslie Bedford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315418967
Leslie Bedford, former director of the highly regarded Bank Street College museum leadership program, expands the museum professional’s vision of exhibitions beyond the simple goal of transmitting knowledge to the visitor. Her view of exhibitions as interactive, emotional, embodied, imaginative experiences opens a new vista for those designing them. Using examples both from her own work at the Boston Children’s Museum and from other institutions around the globe, Bedford offers the museum professional a bold new vision built around narrative, imagination, and aesthetics, merging the work of the educator with that of the artist. It is important reading for all museum professionals.
Author : María Odette Canivell Arzú
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,52 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781498536950
Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination analyzes the cultural imaginaries of the United Kingdom and Spain through their national heroes, King Arthur and Don Quijote, and compares the ways in which they have been constructed as marketing tools.
