Ward Coleridge and the Nature of Imagination

Evolution, Engagement with the World, and Poetry
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-36262-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Literature Collection

Examining a range of Coleridge's writings, this book uses recent scientific research to understand how we have evolved to make mental representations of the counterfactual, how such transformative essays in Imagination have enabled humans to survive, to prosper and to express themselves in the sciences, the arts and particularly in poetry.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface 1. Feeling, Reason, Thought and Language 2. 'Something One and Indivisible' 3. 'The Greenland Wizard' 4. 'The Whole Soul of Man' 5. The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere 6. Kubla Khan 7. Christabel 8. Conclusion: Transformation and Evolution Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Ward, now retired, was a Lecturer in English at the Universities of Warwick and Dundee. He has also taught at the University of Natal, MacGill University and the University of Malaya. His publications include T S Eliot, Between Two Worlds (1973); Jonathan Swift: An Introductory Essay (1973); Chronicles of Darkness (1989), as well as articles in Essays in Criticism, Delta, The London Magazine, Modern Language Review and Shakespeare Quarterly.