Dreaming by the book
- Title
- Dreaming by the book / Elaine Scarry.
- Published by
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- 292 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation." "Dreaming by the Book is not only an original work of literary analysis but a sequence of on-the-spot mental experiments."--Jacket
- Subject
- Imagination in literature
- Imagination (Philosophy)
- Imagery (Psychology)
- Authors and readers
- Books and reading
- Reader-response criticism
- Imagery, Psychotherapy
- imagery
- Schreiben
- Fantasie
- Imagination
- Literatur
- Verbeeldingskracht
- Schrijvers
- Receptie
- Letterkunde
- Lezers
- Imagination > Dans la littérature
- Imagination (philosophie)
- Relations écrivains-lecteurs
- Lesen
- Contents
- Part One: Making pictures -- On vivacity -- On solidarity -- The place of instruction -- Imagining flowers -- Part Two: Moving pictures -- First way: Radiant ignition -- Second way: Rarity -- Third way: Addition and subtraction -- Fourth way: Stretching, folding, and tilting -- Fifth way: Floral supposition -- Part Three: Repicturing -- Circling back -- Skating -- Quickening with flowers.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.