The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature

Smid, Deanna

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“…It is here that myth also applies. The characters and the words an author uses enable the reader to delve deeper into the complexities of the human mind (Smid, 2017). In doing so, the latter develops a better understanding of emotions driving other human beings.…”

Section: Northrop Frye's "The Educated Imagination"mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Experience of Being Alive Through Poetry

Sarma,

Mourphy

2023

ACAD J NAWROZ UNIV

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It is viewed that poets and poetry readers mostly come to a disappointing idea from the community’s belief proclaiming poetry’s death and that poetry is in vain and it is a waste of time. Readers and poets keep wondering intensely that, if so, then how do their souls still recall the inspirational world of imagination? How do their souls travel into an imaginative world of thoughts creating a piece of art through some words that are of daily life experiences? William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, for instance, connects humanity and nature to make life more meaningful. The natural world provides human beings bliss, enabling them to overcome life challenges such as loneliness. The poet obtains happiness from the dancing daffodils and overcomes his loneliness. This togetherness between humanity and the natural world aids the poet in overcoming the challenges. The poem uses poetic devices, especially figurative language, that demands the readers to recall their experiences to understand them better. Like Campbell, Wordsworth has a positive view of the natural world because it enables the speaker to deal with sadness. Therefore, artists should acknowledge the significance of discourses while writing poems. The community, in addition to that,is called to reconsider their beliefs and observe that it is through poetry that our souls get nourished and call our daily life experiences. This study examines former beliefs to prove that poetry is the experience that keeps our souls alive.

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Section: Northrop Frye's "The Educated Imagination"mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Experience of Being Alive Through Poetry

Sarma,

Mourphy

2023

ACAD J NAWROZ UNIV

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“…Furthermore, debates in Literature Studies can provide interesting examples of fantasy's connections to imagination from which we can learn. Fantasy is dealt with primarily as a generic category in the context of the novel where the intra-textual dimensions of fantasy and the fantastic are analyzed and compared (for a few select examples, see: Dath, 2019;Morse, 1987;Smid, 2017;Vax, 1963). Less common, however, are extra-textual studies about fantasy in the history of literature or an author's fantastical, imaginative motivations (Dath, 2019;Durst, 2001;Rabkin, 1976).…”

Section: Reality (Truth)/fantasymentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagination theory: Anthropological perspectives

Rohrer

Thompson

2022

Anthropological Theory

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The term imagination and its derivatives often serve as points of departures, yet a concise understanding of imagination in anthropology is lacking. In this paper, we argue for a contextualized anthropological approach to imagination; a complex notion which has been used to describe the human capacity to mentally (re)create that what is not materially present; the creative process of imagining; and the individual and social products of such a process. We address terminological particularities, conceptual differences, and related concepts in addition to discussing the importance of methods and the poetic imagination. In doing so, we consolidate and elaborate on previous analytical and conceptual works to provide a more explicit middle-range theory of imagination from an anthropological perspective. While we propose understanding imagination as a guiding action in situations of uncertainty or ignorance and emphasize focusing on everyday processes and practices, our discussions provide a framework to discuss and compare empirically grounded findings regarding imagination.

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The Exemplum, Posterity, and Dramatic Irony in Antony and Cleopatra

Williams

2022

The Shakespearean Death Arts

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The Imagination in Early Modern English Literature

Cited by 15 publications

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The Experience of Being Alive Through Poetry

The Experience of Being Alive Through Poetry

Imagination theory: Anthropological perspectives

The Exemplum, Posterity, and Dramatic Irony in Antony and Cleopatra

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