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  1. Wo die Geschichten wohnen
    Contributor: Jeffers, Oliver (Künstler, Verfasser); Winston, Sam (Künstler); Jakobeit, Brigitte (Übersetzer)
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Mixtvision, München

    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Contributor: Jeffers, Oliver (Künstler, Verfasser); Winston, Sam (Künstler); Jakobeit, Brigitte (Übersetzer)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783958540927; 3958540929
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    9783958540927
    RVK Categories: GE 6919
    Subjects: Fantasie; Buch; Imagination; Erzählen
    Other subjects: Büchermenschen; Besondere Illustrationen; Bücher; Fantasie; Geschichten; Kanon; Kindheit; Klassiker; Kultur; Literatur; Poesie; Sprachkunst; Typographie; Vorstellungskraft; Erzählerische Bilderbücher
    Scope: 34 ungezählte Seiten, 26 cm x 25 cm, 447 g
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  2. Wo die Geschichten wohnen
    Contributor: Jeffers, Oliver (Künstler, Verfasser); Winston, Sam (Künstler); Jakobeit, Brigitte (Übersetzer)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Mixtvision, München

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Contributor: Jeffers, Oliver (Künstler, Verfasser); Winston, Sam (Künstler); Jakobeit, Brigitte (Übersetzer)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783958540927
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    9783958540927
    RVK Categories: GE 6919
    Edition: 2. Auflage
    Subjects: Imagination; Erzählen; Buch; Fantasie
    Other subjects: Büchermenschen; Besondere Illustrationen; Bücher; Fantasie; Geschichten; Kanon; Kindheit; Klassiker; Kultur; Literatur; Poesie; Sprachkunst; Typographie; Vorstellungskraft; Erzählerische Bilderbücher
    Scope: 34 ungezählte Seiten, 26 cm x 25 cm, 447 g
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    Bologna Ragazzi Award 2017, Winner Fiction

  3. On being creative
    and other essays
    Published: 1932
    Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin, Boston, Mass.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    RVK Categories: HU 3087
    Subjects: Geschichte; Literatur; Philosophie; Humanism; Imagination; Literature
    Scope: XLIII, 265 S.
  4. Die Zeit der Bilder
    Ikonische Repräsentation und Temporalität
    Contributor: Moxter, Michael (Publisher); Firchow, Markus (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen

    Lessing unterschied die auf den Raum bezogenen bildenden Künste von der Zeitlichkeit der Musik und des Wortes. Doch ist Zeit wirklich das Andere des Bildes? Konkurrieren Bilder mit dem Ewigen, weil in ihnen alle Zeit stillsteht oder manifestieren sie... more

     

    Lessing unterschied die auf den Raum bezogenen bildenden Künste von der Zeitlichkeit der Musik und des Wortes. Doch ist Zeit wirklich das Andere des Bildes? Konkurrieren Bilder mit dem Ewigen, weil in ihnen alle Zeit stillsteht oder manifestieren sie ihre eigene Zeitlichkeit? Die kunstwissenschaftlichen, bildtheoretischen, philosophischen und theologischen Beiträge dieses Bandes entwickeln neue Perspektiven.

     

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    Contributor: Moxter, Michael (Publisher); Firchow, Markus (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783161561436
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    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Series: Hermeneutische Untersuchungen zur Theologie ; 21
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 220 Seiten)
  5. <<The>> sovereign ghost
    studies in imagination
    Published: 1976
    Publisher:  Univ. of California Press, Berkeley

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0520031342
    RVK Categories: EC 2260 ; HG 730
    Subjects: Création (Arts); Imagination; Littérature - Philosophie; Literatur; Philosophie; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Imagination; Literature
    Scope: X, 229 S.
  6. abspenstig
    ein Roman
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Text/Rahmen, Wien

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783903365070; 3903365076
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    9783903365070
    RVK Categories: GN 9999
    DDC Categories: 830
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Other subjects: abspenstig; Birkhan; Mensch; Jenseits; Tattoo; Zeit; Tier; Bachmann; Vorstellung; Imagination; Realität; Raum; Diesseits; Lesung; Roman; Taschenbuch / Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
    Scope: 232 Seiten, 18 cm
  7. <<Die>> (Re-)Imagination des Nationalen in Zeiten der Transformation
    eine afropäische ästhetische Intervention
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  edition assemblage, Münster

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 9783960421177; 3960421176
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    9783960421177
    RVK Categories: EC 1878
    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series: Transkulturelle Literaturwissenschaft aus intersektionaler postkolonialer Perspektive ; Band 4
    Subjects: Adebayo, Diran; Miano, Léonora; SchwarzRund; Schwarze <Motiv>; Postkolonialismus <Motiv>; Transnationalisierung <Motiv>;
    Other subjects: Transnationalismus; Kolonisierung; Migration; Imagination; Afropäisch; Rassismus; Sklaverei; Nation
    Scope: x, 250 Seiten, 20.5 cm x 14 cm
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    Dissertation, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 2020

  8. Emerging Bodies : The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography
    Contributor: Klein, Gabriele (Publisher); Noeth, Sandra (Publisher)
    Published: 20111015
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany

    The concept of 'worldmaking' is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to... more

     

    The concept of 'worldmaking' is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance worlds': through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material. The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral – an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal 'world of dance', but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

     

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    Contributor: Klein, Gabriele (Publisher); Noeth, Sandra (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839415962
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    Subjects: Dance
    Other subjects: Music; Dance; Choreography; Media; Psychoanalysis; Gender; Interculturalitity; Imagination; Body; Arts; Cultural Theory; Theatre Studies
  9. The Politics of Imagination : Benjamin, Kracauer, Kluge
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future... more

     

    This book explores Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer and Alexander Kluge's analyses of the role that a rejuvenation in the capacity for imagination can play in encouraging us to reconceive the possibilities of the past, the present, and the future outside of the parameters of the status quo. The concept of imagination to which the title of the book refers is not a strictly defined, stable concept, but rather a term which is employed to refer to a capacity that facilitates both an active, creative relationship to one's environment, and a process of mediation between the outside world and one's own experiences and memories. Through a detailed analysis of their engagements with subjects that span a broad range of historical and thematic contexts (including topics as diverse as literature, children's play, film, photography, history, and television) the book charts the extent to which the concept of imagination plays a central role in Benjamin, Kracauer, and Kluge's explorations of a mode of perception and experience which could serve as a catalyst for the creation and sustenance of a desire for a different kind of future.

     

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    Source: OAPEN; transcript Open Access
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839406816; 9783899426816
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: Movie; Media; Culture; Literature; Imagination; Walter Benjamin; Siegfried Kracauer; Alexander Kluge; Aesthetics; Film; Media Theory; Media Philosophy; Cultural Theory; Media Studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (198 p.)
  10. Montaigne
    die Imagination und die Kunst des Essays
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Source: Digi20
    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3770535804
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    RVK Categories: CE 7403 ; CE 7417 ; IF 3580
    Subjects: Imagination; Fantasie
    Other subjects: Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592): Essais; Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592)
    Scope: 469 S.
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    Zugl: Düsseldorf, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2000

  11. Fenster im Papier
    die imaginäre Kollision der Architektur mit der Schrift oder die Gedächtnisrevolution der Renaissance
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 377053574X
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    RVK Categories: IB 1600 ; LH 67160
    Subjects: Schrift; Gedächtnis; Architektur; Subjekt <Philosophie>; Imagination; Kunst; Mnemotechnik; Proportion; Renaissance; Weltbild; Architekturtheorie; Transformation
    Scope: 273 S., Ill.
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  12. Das Passional der Kunigunde von Böhmen
    Bildrhetorik und Spiritualität
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Schöningh, Paderborn

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3506791621
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    RVK Categories: AM 53800 ; LL 52290
    DDC Categories: 740; 090; 230
    Subjects: Frömmigkeit; Buchmalerei; Zeithintergrund; Nationalbibliothek; Passionar; Rezeption; Meditation; Imagination
    Scope: 230 S., [28] Bl. : zahlr. Ill.
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    Zugl.: Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2002

  13. Unmögliche Gegenwart
    zur Theorie der Phantasie
    Published: 1995
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3770530373
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    RVK Categories: CC 6900 ; LH 61080
    Subjects: Fantasie; Postmoderne; Bild; Fiktion; Wirklichkeit; Imagination
    Scope: 194 S. : Ill.
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  14. Spekulantenwahn
    zwischen ökonomischer Rationalität und medialer Imagination
    Contributor: Braun, Christina <<von>> (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Neofelis, Berlin

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    Contributor: Braun, Christina <<von>> (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9783958080164; 3958080162
    Other identifier:
    9783958080164
    DDC Categories: 791
    Subjects: Börse <Motiv>; Wirtschaft <Motiv>; Film; Aufsatzsammlung;
    Other subjects: Kino; Film; Finanzmarkt; Börse; Raum; Imagination; Geld; Spekulation
    Scope: 160 S., Ill., 210 mm x 135 mm
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    Zusatz auch: Zwischen ökonomischer Realität und medialer Imagination

  15. Über die Vorstellung
    lateinisch-deutsche Ausgab = De imaginatione
    Published: 1997
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Contributor: Keßler, Eckhard; Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco
    Language: German; Latin
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3770531418
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: CE 7900 ; CE 7904 ; NN 1624
    Edition: 3., verb. Aufl.
    Series: [Humanistische Bibliothek / 2] ; 13
    Subjects: Imagination
    Other subjects: Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni (1463-1494)
    Scope: 151 S.
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  16. Symbolismus und symbolische Logik
    die Idee der Ars Combinatoria in der Entwicklung der modernen Dichtung
    Published: 1978
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 3770515811
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    RVK Categories: EC 2490 ; EC 3000 ; GM 1712 ; GE 3677
    Series: [Humanistische Bibliothek / 1] ; 28
    Subjects: Kombinatorik; Literatur; Naturwissenschaften; Poetik; Imagination; Beziehung; Symbolismus
    Scope: 236 S. : Ill.
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  17. Babylonische Spiele
    William Beckford und das Erwachen der modernen Imagination
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Language: German; English
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 3770534956
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    RVK Categories: HL 1845
    Series: Literatur und andere Künste
    Subjects: Imagination; Literatur; Architektur
    Other subjects: Beckford, William (1760-1844); Beckford, William (1760-1844): Vathek
    Scope: 240 S. : Ill.
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    Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 1997

  18. Blick und Bild im Spannungsfeld von Sehen, Metaphern und Verstehen
    Contributor: Borsche, Tilman
    Published: 1998
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Contributor: Borsche, Tilman
    Language: German; English; French
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3770533127
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    RVK Categories: CC 4400 ; CC 4800 ; CC 6900 ; CI 1120 ; CP 2500 ; LH 61045 ; LH 61080 ; CC 1100
    Series: Académie du Midi <Lagrasse>: Schriften der Académie du Midi ; 3
    Subjects: Blick; Metapher; Licht; Sehen; Kultur; Philosophie; Imagination; Sprachverstehen; Bildverstehen
    Scope: 330 S. : Ill.
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    Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl., teilw. franz.

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  19. Die unsichtbare Imagination
    literarisches Denken im 16. Jahrhundert
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Contributor: Olejniczak Lobsien, Verena; Lobsien, Eckhard
    Language: German
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3770538994
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    RVK Categories: EC 5146 ; HI 1151 ; HI 1112
    Subjects: Englisch; Poetik; Imagination; Literaturproduktion; Theorie
    Scope: 434 S.
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  20. Kant und die Imagination der Tiere
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Konstanz University Press, Konstanz

    Kants Reflexionen über die Tiere eröffnen einen bisher übersehenen Zugang zu seiner Konzeption menschlicher Anschauung und Einbildungskraft. In ihrem Buch zeigt Rahel Villinger, wie Kants Ästhetik, Erkenntnis- und Geschichtstheorie vor dem... more

     

    Kants Reflexionen über die Tiere eröffnen einen bisher übersehenen Zugang zu seiner Konzeption menschlicher Anschauung und Einbildungskraft. In ihrem Buch zeigt Rahel Villinger, wie Kants Ästhetik, Erkenntnis- und Geschichtstheorie vor dem Hintergrund der Annahme eines tierischen Erkenntnisvermögens durch Anschauung und Einbildungskraft völlig neu lesbar werden.

     

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    Subjects: Theory of art; Literary theory
    Other subjects: Kant; Imagination; Tiere
  21. Die Augen der Automaten
    E. T. A. Hoffmanns Imaginationslehre als Prinzip seiner Erzählkunst
    Published: [1971]; 1971; © 1971
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783111383484; 9783484180185; 9783111958996
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    Series: Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; 24
    Subjects: Deutsche Literatur; Linguistic Theories; Linguistics, Communication Studies; Linguistics, other; Erzählung; Imagination; Erzählung; Imagination
    Other subjects: Hoffmann, E. T. A. (1776-1822)
    Scope: 192pages), illustrations
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 05 2015)

  22. Die Herausforderung des Dämons
    Form u. Funktion grausiger Kindermärchen ; eine volkskundliche und tiefenpsychologische Darstellung der Struktur, Motivik u. Rezeption von 27 untereinander verwandten Erzähltypen
    Published: 1987
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783598106644; 9783111693057; 9783111995335
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    Subjects: Kind; Children; Children's literature, German; Cruelty in literature; Fairy tales; Fairy tales; Tiefenpsychologie; Psychologie; Märchen; Imagination; Volkskunde; Kind <Motiv>; Das Grausige; Grausamkeit; Schrecken <Motiv>; Kind; Dämon <Motiv>; Zaubermärchen
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (394 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (page 306-313) and index

  23. Liberty of the Imagination
    Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780812206197
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    Subjects: Landschaft <Motiv>; Imagination; Poetik; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (328 S.)
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    Biographical note: Edward Cahill is Associate Professor of English at Fordham University

    Main description: Liberty of the Imagination reveals the powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth century

  24. Dickens and the Trials of Imagination
    Published: [1974]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780674864870; 9780674864863
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    Subjects: English language / 19th century / Style; English language / Style; Englisch; Englische Literatur; Style, Literary; Imagination; Imagination
    Other subjects: Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii,260p.)
  25. Metamorphosis
    The Mind in Exile
    Published: [1981]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674424982; 9780674424975
    Other identifier:
    Subjects: Imagination / History; Romanticism / Great Britain; Romanticism / Germany; Empiricism / History; Enlightenment / History; Imagination / Histoire; Siècle des lumières / Histoire; Romantisme / Grande-Bretagne; Romantisme / Allemagne; Empirisme / Histoire; Geschichte; Philosophie; Enlightenment; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Création littéraire; Empiricism; Imagination; Romanticism; Creativiteit; Verbeelding; Verbeeldingskracht; Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis); Romantiek; Deutsch; Englisch; Literatur; Romantik; Theorie; Metamorphose <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (244p.)
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    Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition

    Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Harold Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition: Is the mind reducible to physical properties? What constitutes personhood? How does physical form affect personal identity and continuity of the self? Testing instances in which these and related perplexities appear in literature, Skulsky systematically and provocatively interprets ten major illustrative texts drawn from diverse epochs and languages, including the works of Homer, Ovid, Apuleius, Marie de France, Dante, Donne, Spenser, Keats, Kafka, and Woolf. Through Skulsky's masterly analysis the victims of metamorphosis in narrative literature--whether werewolf, ass, beetle, swine, or tree--provide a profound insight into the complexities of human experience