Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: John BrewerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113591236X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.
The Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imagination
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Pleasures of Imagination
Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem, Etc. [By Mark Akenside.]
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Author: Essays on the Pleasures of the Imagination
Author: Joseph AddisonEssays on the Pleasures of the Imagination ... Originally published in the Spectator. Stereotype edition
Author: Joseph AddisonSpinoza and the Cunning of Imagination
Author: Eugene GarverPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022657556X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza’s understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethics as a whole—imagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don’t allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, “the cunning of imagination.” The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the “cunning” of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.
The Pleasures of Imagination
Author: Mark AkensidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like
Author: Paul BloomPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039307711X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
"Engaging, evocative…[Bloom] is a supple, clear writer, and his parade of counterintuitive claims about pleasure is beguiling." —NPR Why is an artistic masterpiece worth millions more than a convincing forgery? Pleasure works in mysterious ways, as Paul Bloom reveals in this investigation of what we desire and why. Drawing on a wealth of surprising studies, Bloom investigates pleasures noble and seamy, lofty and mundane, to reveal that our enjoyment of a given thing is determined not by what we can see and touch but by our beliefs about that thing’s history, origin, and deeper nature.
Author: Mark Akenside