Fancy & Imagination

ISBN-13: 9781138241893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 90 str.

R. L. Brett

Opis

First published in 1969, this book provides a concise and helpful introduction to the terms fancy and imagination . Although they are generally associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the work begins with a discussion the history of these concepts which were also known to Aristotle, the Elizabethans, Hobbes, Locke and Blake. It then goes on to examine Coleridge s theory of imagination and the distinction he drew between fancy and imagination.

This work will be of particular interest to those studying Coleridge and the Romantic Movement. "

Spis treści

General Editor’s Preface; 1. Imagination and the Association of Ideas 2. Coleridge’s Distinction between Fancy and Imagination 3. Symbol and Concept; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

R. L. Brett