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Dreaming by the book

Title: Dreaming by the book / Elaine Scarry.
Author: Scarry, Elaine.
Publication: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2001.

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Description

292 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation." "Dreaming by the Book is not only an original work of literary analysis but a sequence of on-the-spot mental experiments."--Jacket

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Note

Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-273) and index.

Contents

Part One: Making pictures -- On vivacity -- On solidarity -- The place of instruction -- Imagining flowers -- Part Two: Moving pictures -- First way: Radiant ignition -- Second way: Rarity -- Third way: Addition and subtraction -- Fourth way: Stretching, folding, and tilting -- Fifth way: Floral supposition -- Part Three: Repicturing -- Circling back -- Skating -- Quickening with flowers.

ISBN

0691070768
9780691070766
0195089642
9780195089646

LCCN

00111848
9780691070766

OCLC

ocm46729763
46729763
SCSB-1217306

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Princeton University Library