Poetry and Imagined Worlds

ISBN-13: 9783319648576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 301 str.

Olga Lehmann; Nandita Chaudhary; Ana Cecilia Bastos

Opis

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike.

Spis treści

Section I. Poetic Resources as Tools to Make Meaning

Chapter 1. A liaison of poetry and tattoos: The multivoicedness in Edgar Allan Poe's poem “The Raven”

Chapter 2. Beauty of the Back

Chapter 3. Poetry In and For Society: Poetic Messages, Creativity, and Social Change

Chapter 4. The Poetics Within Performance Art: The Developmental Nature Of Artistic Creative Processes

Chapter 5. Commentary: Poesis and Imagination.- Section II. The Poetic Roots of Creativity and Imagination

Chapter 6. Living Against and Persistence of Being: Poetic Sharing of Being Sensitive Within Antagonistic Worlds

Chapter 7. Rimbauding Worlds: Creation of Deranging Senses

Chapter 8. Living in Verse: Sites of the Poetic Imagination

Chapter 9. Apprehending beauty: Ordinary people’s experiences of the ‘poetic instant’ in India

Chapter 10. “The Tune Without The Words”: Dickinson`s Verses In a Jazz Ensemble: A Case Study on The Poetics of Music and The Musicality of Poetry

Chapter 11. Commentary: On poetics, art and life

Section III. The poetics of daily life

Chapter 12. Imagined Sea

Chapter 13. Living with "Encantados": Dances of poet and scientist within the self

Chapter 14. Poetic gestures of life

Chapter 15. Dialogue as poetic imagination in the Way of Tea

Chapter 16. Commentary: The Poetics of Daily Life: The Invisible Becomes Visible

Chapter 17. Conclusive Remarks: Writing Toward the Core—Poetically Framing a Science of Cultural Psychology

O autorze

Olga V. Lehmann researches at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 

Nandita Chaudhary is Associate Professor at the University of Delhi, India. 

Ana Cecilia Bastos is Professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. 

Emily Abbey is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.

Blurb

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience.  How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike. Poetry functions, in all ages and cultures, as a rite that merges the beauty, truth and the unbearable conditions of existence.  Both the general and the particular can be found in its expression.  Collectively the authors aim to evoke a holistic understanding of what poetry conveys about decision making and the human search for meaning. This ground-breaking collection will be indispensable to scholars of clinical and theoretical psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, aesthetics and sociology.