Dreaming by the Book

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-691-07076-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in which their creations will get made--the back-lit tissue of the human brain. In her brilliant synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, and cognitive psychology, Elaine Scarry explores the principal practices by which writers bring things to life for their readers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scarry, Elaine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: Making Pictures

1. On Vivacity 3

2. On Solidity 10

3. The Place of Instruction 31

4. Imagining Flowers 40

PART TWO: Moving Pictures 75

5. First Way: Radiant Ignition 77

6. Second Way: Rarity 89

7. Third Way: Addition and Subtraction 100

8. Fourth Way: Streching, Folding, and Tilting 111

9. Fifth Way: Floral Supposition 158

PART THREE: Repicturing

10. Circling Back 195

11. Skating 206

12. Quickening with Flowers 221

Conclusion: Teaching Made-up Birds to Fly 239

Notes 249

Acknowledgments 275

Index 281