Poetry And Imagined Worlds

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience.

Author: Olga V. Lehmann

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN: 3319648578

Category: Psychology

Page: 301

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This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike. Poetry functions, in all ages and cultures, as a rite that merges the beauty, truth and the unbearable conditions of existence. Both the general and the particular can be found in its expression. Collectively the authors aim to evoke a holistic understanding of what poetry conveys about decision making and the human search for meaning. This ground-breaking collection will be indispensable to scholars of clinical and theoretical psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, aesthetics and sociology.
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Poetry And Imagined Worlds

The musicality of poetry and poetic musicality: A case of cultural psychology approach to study the creativity within emotions and meaning. In O. V. Lehmann, O. N. Chaudhary, A. C. Bastos, & E. Abbey (Eds.), Poetry and imagined worlds: ...

Author: Olga V. Lehmann

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9783319648583

Category: Psychology

Page: 301

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This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike. Poetry functions, in all ages and cultures, as a rite that merges the beauty, truth and the unbearable conditions of existence. Both the general and the particular can be found in its expression. Collectively the authors aim to evoke a holistic understanding of what poetry conveys about decision making and the human search for meaning. This ground-breaking collection will be indispensable to scholars of clinical and theoretical psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, aesthetics and sociology.
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Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities

I've got some books of published student poetry, and there's some stunning stuff there, where kids have opened up their imaginations and written in all these fresh and arresting ways about how they see and experience the world.

Author: Steve Shann

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9789462098879

Category: Education

Page: 140

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"Stories matter. Stories speak about complex aspects of our lives that intuitively we know are important but for which the language of rational discourse is often inadequate. Stories draw on archetypal structures and evocative language in ways that create affect: they penetrate, provoke, and disturb. This is a book of nine stories about teachers and students. A young woman sits in her first teacher-education lecture and wonders what kind of a tribe she is joining. A preservice teacher clashes with his mentor teacher on a practicum. A teacher and students inhabit an online space with unpredictable consequences. Sally discovers the Universarium. Joseph writes a story that undoes his therapist. Sylvia struggles to free herself from an oppressive discourse about the nature of teaching. Two siblings support and console each other through their complex inductions into classroom lifeworlds. A secondary student goes missing and police, the media and his teachers wonder why. A teacher-education academic wrestles with elusive ideas in order to prepare a lecture that he hopes will make a more-than-passing impact. There is no other book like Imagined Worlds and Classroom Realities. It not only tells nine gripping stories, but also positions these stories as part of a growing scholarship about story-telling. It includes, as well, practical ways of using the stories in teacher education and professional development. Steve Shann is a teacher and writer with over forty years experience in primary, secondary and tertiary classrooms. "
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Woman Reading to the Sea Poems

This slender volume constitutes a journey of sorts, a pilgrimage 'out' that returns the questing poet, imagined as a companion 'you,' to her own life."—Joyce Carol Oates, prize citation

Author: Lisa Williams

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

ISBN: 9780393066432

Category: Poetry

Page: 128

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A new volume from the winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize. "Poems of arresting intelligence, precision, and beauty. In wonderfully crafted language, with the startling subtlety of certain of Emily Dickinson's poems, Lisa Williams takes us into eerily imagined worlds—the interior of a jellyfish, and the interior of a glacier; she beguiles us with the most seductive of poetic possibilities....This slender volume constitutes a journey of sorts, a pilgrimage 'out' that returns the questing poet, imagined as a companion 'you,' to her own life."—Joyce Carol Oates, prize citation
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Imagined Worlds and Constructed Differences in the Hebrew Bible

She maintains that poetry, pedagogy, and ethos are all intertwined in Proverbs. 8 She points out that poetry in Proverbs would be more difficult for students to read than narrative but that its difficulty is intentional in order to hone ...

Author: Jeremiah W. Cataldo

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9780567683502

Category: Religion

Page: 200

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The purpose of this volume is twofold: to introduce readers to the study of cultural memory and identity in relation to the Hebrew Bible, and to set up strategies for connecting studies of the historical contexts and literature of the Bible to parallel issues in the present day. The volume questions how we can better understand the divide between insider and outsider and the powerful impact of prejudice as a basis for preserving differences between "us" and "them"? In turn the contributors question how such frameworks shape a community's self-perception, its economics and politics. Guided by the general framework of Anderson's theory of nationalism and the outsider, such issues are explored in related ways throughout each of the contributions. Each contribution focuses on social, economic, or political issues that have significantly shaped or influenced dominant elements of cultural memory and the construction of identity in the biblical texts. Together the contributions present a larger proposal: the broad contours of memory and identity in the Bible are the products of a collective desire to reshape the social-political world.
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The Fifth Season

Is he writing or dying? In The Fifth Season Philip Salom brings his virtuoso gifts for storytelling, humour and character to a haunting and unforgettable novel about the tenuousness of life and what it means to be both lost and found.

Author: Philip Salom

Publisher: Transit Lounge

ISBN: 9781925760668

Category: Fiction

Page: 288

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Jack retreats to an Airbnb cottage in a small coastal town. As a writer he is pre-occupied with the phenomenon of found people: the Somerton Man, the Gippsland Man, the Isdal Woman, people who are found dead — their identities unknown or erased — and the mysterious pull this has on the public mind. In Blue Bay, as well as encountering the town's colourful inhabitants, Jack befriends Sarah, whose sister Alice is one of the many thousands of people who go missing every year. Sarah has been painting her sister's likeness in murals throughout the country, hoping that Alice will be found. Then Jack discovers a book about the people of the town, and about Sarah, which was written by a man who called himself Simon. Who once lived in the same cottage and created a backyard garden comprised of crazy mosaics. Until he too disappeared. While Sarah's life seems beholden to an ambiguous grief, Jack's own condition is unclear. Is he writing or dying? In The Fifth Season Philip Salom brings his virtuoso gifts for storytelling, humour and character to a haunting and unforgettable novel about the tenuousness of life and what it means to be both lost and found. 'An immensely wise, witty, recognisable and haunting story.' — Robert Drewe
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The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry

It is as though her sonnets represent a fracturing of the great ode , selecting one experience or sentiment or passion to constitute a poem in itself . Smith was not alone in turning away from the imagined worlds of the ode writers .

Author: John Sitter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521658853

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 298

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This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.
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Face to Face with Dreams

Confident, imaginative, clear-eyed, self-effacing, Torabi convinces us of the reality of his fiercely imagined worlds and takes us deeply into our own. FACE TO FACE WITH DREAMS is a literary feast.

Author: Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Turābī

Publisher:

ISBN: 0991189566

Category:

Page: 200

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Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Farsi by Parisa Samadi. The first English-language translation of Ziaeddin Torabi's Iran Book of the Year award- winning FACE TO FACE WITH DREAMS, presented in a beautiful facing-page Farsi/English edition. "Ziaeddin Torabi's remarkable poetry happens at the intersection of the dreamed and the real. In one poem, mythic snakes 'have grown on your shoulder.' In another, a tree having dropped its leaves 'can be gallows / or a light pole.' In another, the human heart is a grenade. Confident, imaginative, clear-eyed, self-effacing, Torabi convinces us of the reality of his fiercely imagined worlds and takes us deeply into our own. FACE TO FACE WITH DREAMS is a literary feast." Greg Glazner "What a thrill for the world to get the gift of Ziaeddin Torabi. A beloved Iranian bard and scholar, Torabi tints many old and new worlds, classical and contemporary, in his singular style and vision. FACE TO FACE WITH DREAMS is a gorgeous, heartbreaking, strange, ecstatic collection." Porochista Khakpour "Here, in Torabi's poems, simple and direct language conveys the emotional complexity of human everyday drama. Moving forward through the pages, one finds in Torabi's fragmentary poetic narratives, the long deep structures of the self. People shuffle through the incomplete day, losing and finding themselves amid the collateral events of a broken world. Refreshing, earnest work in a time of demasiado irony. You can feel the emotional depth way down in your guts." Daniel Rounds"
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The Notion of Turning in Metaphysical Poetry

In addition to the question of the poem's fictionality, there is the question of what is “material” or immaterial (spiritual or imagined) within the poem. The speaker creates and combines several imagined worlds in the poem.

Author: Carmen Dörge

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

ISBN: 9783643909916

Category: Poetry

Page: 371

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In "Metaphysical Poetry", there is an emphasis on religious experience, which often touches on diverse kinds of turning. Among them are religious conversion (a turn to God), spatial movement (turning in space), divine transformation (turning from one kind into another), musical tuning (turning as a requisite for harmony) and circular turning. Moreover, there is a strong link between turning and its realisation through the language of the poems. Focusing on John Donne and George Herbert, this study explores various aspects of turning, as well as their interrelation. Dissertation. (Series: Religion and Literature / Religion und Literatur, Vol. 7) [Subject: Poetry]
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The Cambridge History of American Literature Volume 8 Poetry and Criticism 1940 1995

The imagination is in fact much richer , which is to say needier , than the imagined worlds of mass culture . What the poet in some sense affirms against the fat , secular tele - culture is the acuteness of the outsider : the wife ...

Author: Sacvan Bercovitch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521497337

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 545

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Discusses the social, cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic aspects of American literature
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Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World

Making a political statement in effect means making an ethical difference that performs the difference through the close, the intimate intertwining of self with world. In its labour to imagined worlds, poetry performs a crucial role, ...

Author: Monika Szuba

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

ISBN: 9781474450621

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 186

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Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the representation of landscape in contemporary poetryOpens up the dialogue between ecocriticism and phenomenologyProvides significant original discussion of major Scottish poetsReassesses the work and place of Kenneth White's poetry and thoughtWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism. It explores these poets' organic, intimate interrelation between the self and the world, their relationship to the landscape and connection with nature.
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English PoetryFrom John Donne To Ted Hughes

In the words of Stephen Spender , “ At the back of the Romantic Movement is the idea that poetry creates its own kind of reality . ” Keats gives the impression that the world of the imagination is realer than the real world .

Author: Tomichan Matheikal

Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist

ISBN: 8171569919

Category: English poetry

Page: 152

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The Book Presents Well-Researched Critical Studies On Selected Poems From The Various Historical Epochs Of English Literature. Each Major Epoch From The Sixteenth To The Twentieth Century Is Presented To The Reader With An Illuminating Introduction. The Introductory Discussions Fall Under The Headings Of : Metaphysical Poetry The Age Of Reason And Sensibility Romantic Poetry Victorian Poetry The Twentieth CenturySixteen Prominent British Poets Are Studies In Detail In This Volume. Most Of The Poems Discussed In This Book Are Also Prescribed To Students Of English Literature By Universities Worldwide. Hence The Book Is An Ideal Companion To Every Student And Teacher Of English Literature.
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Butterfly Brain

A delightful and moving exploration of grief and the joy that makes us human, from the effervescent voice of Laura Dockrill, with heartwarming full-colour illustrations from Gwen Millward.

Author: Laura Dockrill

Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

ISBN: 9781848128699

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 64

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If Roald Dahl had written A Monster Calls . . . A very special picture book from two rising stars. Everyone is always shouting at Gus to stop leaning back in his chair - but does he care? No way! Then sure enough, the chair falls, he cracks his head and has to spend all summer in bed. Out of the crack escape his memories, dreams and imagination ... and a beautiful little butterfly guide. Gus must follow the butterfly to recapture all he's lost, including that locked box he doesn't seem to want to touch ... Together they remember fish fingers, snapping bubble wrap, cracked pink soap and the leaky tap; they go wild, stomping around in the joy of imagination and happy dreams - but they can't go any further if Gus won't gather all of his memories. His butterfly will die unless Gus is ready to hear about his mum ... A delightful and moving exploration of grief and the joy that makes us human, from the effervescent voice of Laura Dockrill, with heartwarming full-colour illustrations from Gwen Millward.
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Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition 1780 1860

To me thou art a vision half divine, Of myriad flowers lit up with summer shine –70 The “real world” evoked in this poem appears more false than the imagined, and these lines certainly have an added poignancy in the light of Lawford's ...

Author: Claire Knowles

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781317057246

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 192

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Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with critical hostility by a literary culture that valorised sincerity. This sets the stage for Charlotte Smith, who pioneers an autobiographical approach to poetic production that places increased emphasis on the connection between the poet's physical body and her body of work. Knowles shows the poets Susan Evance, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning advancing Smith's poetic strategy as they seek to elicit a powerful sympathetic response from readers by highlighting a connection between their actual suffering and the production of poetry. From this environment, a specific tradition in female poetry arises that is identifiable in the work of twentieth-century writers like Sylvia Plath and continues to pertain today. Alongside this new understanding of poetic tradition, Knowles provides an innovative account of the central role of women writers to an emergent late eighteenth-century mass literary culture and traces a crucial discursive shift that takes place in poetic production during this period. She argues that the movement away from the passionate discourse of sensibility in the late eighteenth century to the more contained rhetoric of sentimentality in the early nineteenth had an enormous effect, not only on female poets but also on British literary culture as a whole.
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The Dream House

Everyone needs somewhere to dream. The stunning new book from one of the most original and interesting voices in children's literature. Rex has gone to stay with his godfather, Sparky.

Author: Laura Dockrill

Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.

ISBN: 9781848129900

Category: Juvenile Fiction

Page: 96

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Growing up. Things change. Come find yourself in the Dream House. How are you? How are you doing? Rex has gone to stay with his godfather, Sparky. Rex doesn't say much but that's OK because Sparky is always on hand with a cup of tea to enjoy on the sofa, set up outside like an outdoor living room. Rex has his sketchbook, and he draws how he feels even if he can't talk about it. And in Sparky's garden, hidden under the canopy of the willow tree, is the Dream House: a lovingly created space just for Rex, to dream, to play, to think, to be. A place he's loved all his childhood. But to go inside now Rex must summon his strength for revisiting the ghosts of his past . . . An evocative sketchbook novella revealing a boy's inner world, accessing his feelings through drawing and reconnecting with the people who love him, told through Laura Dockrill's vivid storytelling. Fully illustrated throughout.
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Australian Poetry

It seems to the soul that its former knowledge , and even the knowledge of the whole world , is pure ignorance by ... Imagined World ( North Ryde : Angus & Robertson , 1991 ) ; Jennifer Strauss , Boundary Conditions : The Poetry of Gwen ...

Author: Paul Kane

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 0521438241

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 262

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This book offers a comprehensive and original reading of Australian poetry, from the colonial period to the present, through the dual lenses of Romanticism and negativity. Paul Kane argues that the absence of Romanticism functions as a crucial presence in the poetry of all the major Australian poets. This absence or negativity is both thematic and structural, and Kane's scrupulous analyses uncover important relations between Romanticism and negativity. Chapters on nine individual poets explore and substantiate the theoretical claims informed by the work of contemporary critics of Romanticism and by various philosophers of negativity. These chapters can serve as a series of self-contained readings of Australian poets for the use of students, scholars, and informed general readers. Australian Poetry is unique in its sustained argument and theoretical sophistication.
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Imagined Worlds

bibliographical notes June Goodfield , An Imagined World : A Story of Scientific Discovery ( New York : Harper and Row ... Weissmann has a strong and well - informed interest , unusual for a scientist , both in poetry and in art .

Author: Freeman J. Dyson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

ISBN: 0674539095

Category: Literary Collections

Page: 216

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A thought-provoking, speculative look at the world's cultural future addresses the issue of whether or not human society will progress ethically as it progressed technologically. Reprint. UP.
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Fiction and Poetry

EAR 4 TERM 2 Range Fiction and poetry: • stories/novels about imagined worlds: science-fiction, fantasy adventures • stories in series • classic and modem poetry, including poetry from different cultures and times. TEXT LEVEL WORK ...

Author: Wendy Wren

Publisher: Nelson Thornes

ISBN: 9780748736003

Category: English language

Page: 136

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This is a resource for teaching the Literacy Hour, the National Curriculum for English and the Scottish Guidelines for English language 5-14. It covers the key requirements for text level work (comprehension and composition) for fiction and poetry for Years 3 and 4 (Scotland P4-5.)It provides sections of syruictured lesson plans on all the main genres (narrative, poetry and plays).
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Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust

Turner remarks that someone 'trapped inescapably in an actual story of suffering or pain may wilfully imagine some other, quite different story, as a mental escape from the present' (Turner 2003: 118). Sometimes the imagined world is ...

Author: Jean Boase-Beier

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781441186669

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 208

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Taking a cognitive approach, this book asks what poetry, and in particular Holocaust poetry, does to the reader - and to what extent the translation of this poetry can have the same effects. It is informed by current theoretical discussion and features many practical examples. Holocaust poetry differs from other genres of writing about the Holocaust in that it is not so much concerned to document facts as to document feelings and the sense of an experience. It shares the potential of all poetry to have profound effects on the thoughts and feelings of the reader. This book examines how the openness to engagement that Holocaust poetry can engender, achieved through stylistic means, needs to be preserved in translation if the translated poem is to function as a Holocaust poem in any meaningful sense. This is especially true when historical and cultural distance intervenes. The first book of its kind and by a world-renowned scholar and translator, this is required reading.
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