Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008170588/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 26 of
26
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11362976.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Part 1. Making Pictures -- 1. On vivacity -- 2. On solidity -- 3. The place of instruction -- 4. Imagining flowers -- Part 2. Moving Pictures -- 5. First Way: Radiant ignition -- 6. Second Way: Rarity -- 7. Third Way: Addition and subtraction -- 8. Fourth Way: Stretching, folding, and tilting -- 9. Fifth Way: Floral supposition -- Part 3. Repicturing -- 10. Circling back -- 11. Skating -- 12. Quickening with flowers -- Conclusion: Teaching made-up birds to fly.".
- catalog extent "292 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0374143986".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux,".
- catalog subject "801/.95 21".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Imagery (Psychology)".
- catalog subject "Imagination (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "Imagination in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN56.I45 S38 1999".
- catalog subject "Reader-response criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part 1. Making Pictures -- 1. On vivacity -- 2. On solidity -- 3. The place of instruction -- 4. Imagining flowers -- Part 2. Moving Pictures -- 5. First Way: Radiant ignition -- 6. Second Way: Rarity -- 7. Third Way: Addition and subtraction -- 8. Fourth Way: Stretching, folding, and tilting -- 9. Fifth Way: Floral supposition -- Part 3. Repicturing -- 10. Circling back -- 11. Skating -- 12. Quickening with flowers -- Conclusion: Teaching made-up birds to fly.".
- catalog title "Dreaming by the book / Elaine Scarry.".
- catalog type "text".