Author: Constance S. RichardsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815333661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
On the Winds and Waves of Imagination
Author: Constance S. RichardsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780815333661
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Wind Water Waves
Author: Tom FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A collection of nine short stories reflecting on various characters' relationships with "The River." Ranging in time from the early 20th century to the present, Wind Water Waves chronicles how a varied cast of characters' lives are tied to "The River." The collection begins with "The Last of the Old Timers," the story of four individuals pulling a boat in the fall and recollecting their lives together. Four of the stories, told from different points of view, revolve around a group of young adults grappling with the death of a friend while also realizing that their season of youthful play in a summer wonderland is ending as they are forced to limit their time at the river and test their relationships with each other. "With the River and In the Wind" recalls a harrowing trip across the winter ice when a horse-drawn sleigh crashes through, killing the horses and forcing young Ben into an abandoned cabin until the storm passes. Later, he must confront death again when he recovers the body of a close family friend. "The Midnight Lady" recounts the attempt of two brothers to rob a riverside bank by boat in a fog. "Mom Makes River a Garden" reflects a memory that has blossomed with time. The book ends with "River Murmurs," a glance back to an event in the lives of the characters from the first story.
Nothing But Waves and Wind
Author: Christine MontalbettiPublisher: FRE French Literature Series
ISBN: 9781943150182
Category : Bars (Drinking establishments)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A musty bar in off-season Cannon Beach, Oregon, provides the setting for an unsuspecting Frenchman's introduction to the many ways life can go wrong for the unlucky in America. He listens as the barflies nightly recount their tales of woe--betrayal, broken families, financial ruin. Though they seem at first to tolerate the newcomer's presence and sympathy, a tide of violence is rising, one he perceives only dimly until it is too late to escape. Made doubly powerful by her poetic fascination with the violence and volatility of the American landscape itself, Montalbetti's novel is a thrilling study of the senseless cruelty disappointed men are capable of.
Waves Across the South
Author: Sujit SivasundaramPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679055X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resistance in the face of unprecedented globalization and violence. Waves Across the South shifts the narrative of the Age of Revolutions and the origins of the British Empire; it foregrounds a vast southern zone that ranges from the Arabian Sea and southwest Indian Ocean across to the Bay of Bengal, and onward to the South Pacific and the Tasman Sea. As the empires of the Dutch, French, and especially the British reached across these regions, they faced a surge of revolutionary sentiment. Long-standing venerable Eurasian empires, established patterns of trade and commerce, and indigenous practice also served as a context for this transformative era. In addition to bringing long-ignored people and events to the fore, Sujit Sivasundaram opens the door to new and necessary conversations about environmental history, the consequences of historical violence, the legacies of empire, the extraction of resources, and the indigenous futures that Western imperialism cut short. The result is nothing less than a bold new way of understanding our global past, one that also helps us think afresh about our shared future.
The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism
Author: Cornelis Hendrik LeijenhorstPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004117297
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An acclaimed study - now available for the first time in English - investigates the relation between Thomas Hobbes natural philosophy as represented in his Prima Philosophia (the second part of "De corpore" (1655)) and the various currents of Renaissance and early modern Aristotelianism.
Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland: with an illustrative glossary, by Captain Thomas Brown. [With a portrait.]
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Author: John Mackay WILSONWilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. [With Plates.]
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Author: John Mackay WilsonPublisher: London ; Glasgow : W. Mackenzie, [188-?]
ISBN:
Category : Borders Region (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
The Psychology of Imagination
Author: Brady WagonerPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1681237113
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here?and?now situation in order to return to it with new possibilities. To do this we use social?cultural means (e.g. language, stories, art, images, etc.) to conceive of imaginary scenarios, some of which may become real. Imagination is involved in every situation of our lives, though to different degrees. Sometimes this process can lead to concrete products (e.g., artistic works) that can be picked up and used by others for the purposes of their imagining. Imagination is not seen here as an isolated cognitive faculty but as the means by which people anticipate and constructively move towards an indeterminate future. It is in this process of living forward with the help of imagination that novelty appears and social change becomes possible. This book offers a conceptual history of imagination, an array of theoretical approaches, imagination’s use in psychologist’s thinking and a number of new research areas. Its aim is to offer a re?enchantment of the concept of imagination and the discipline of psychology more generally.
Essays Critical and Imaginative
Author: John WilsonThe Mechanization of Aristotelianism
Author: Cees LeijenhorstPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004475044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book discusses the Aristotelian setting of Thomas Hobbes' main work on natural philosophy, De Corpore (1655). Leijenhorst's study puts particular emphasis on the second part of the work, entitled Philosophia Prima. Although Hobbes presents his mechanistic philosophy of nature as an outright replacement of Aristotelian physics, he continued to use the vocabulary and arguments of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Aristotelianism. Leijenhorst shows that while in some cases this common vocabulary hides profound conceptual innovations, in other cases Hobbes' self-proclaimed "new" philosophy is simply old wine in new sacks. Leijenhorst's book substantially enriches our insight in the complexity of the rise of modern philosophy and the way it struggled with the Aristotelian heritage.