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- A work of imaginative literature is a presentational symbol of human feeling or experience, a verbal presentation of an imaginary world in which imaginary beings engage in imaginary acts and processes, the whole being useful to human beings by enabling them to make certain kinds of abstractions—abstractions about the nature of the world and about the ways in which the conceptual faculty may be used to describe and understand it.
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Aug 31, 2021 · In 1817, Coleridge published his philosophical and critical autobiographical work “Biographia Literaria” in which Coleridge expounds his personal concept of imagination and fancy in detail. According to Coleridge, there are mainly two types of imagination: primary imagination and secondary imagination.
This chapter introduces the history of the concept of imagination within philosophy, the human sciences, and literary theory. It shows how imagination allows escape from ordinary life while also illuminating possibilities with which we can engage reality.
“On Imagination” is the work of an African American brought to the US in chains, a woman who taught herself poetry and who lived all but the last six years of her short life enslaved to a prominent family in Boston.
Coleridge gives to the Imagination a status implicit in the sub-text of Theseus’s words. It is essentially a creative faculty, and when the poet or artist ‘imagines’ a work into being, he (or she) is repeating in the ‘finite’ mind that original act of creation in the mind of God.
Imagination, as Wordsworth conceives the term in the 1815 Preface, is not a mental faculty producing images or copies of previously received sensory data, but an active mental process that can work with and transform existing sense impressions in order to produce new ones.
Mar 27, 2018 · Bachelard’s works on imagination have been used primarily by literary critics interested in the archetypal imagery of writers. His treatment of the imagination of matter has led to a method of classifying poets according to their favorite substances, based on a view of Bachelard as a “psychoanalyst” of the elements.
Imagination is undoubtedly inherent in literature, the prime component in any work of art, but this view has been a cause of debate since the dawn of literature and criticism.
