The wake of imagination [electronic resource] : ideas of creativity in Western culture / Richard Kearney.

Author/Creator:

Kearney, Richard.

Publication:

London : Hutchinson, 1988.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (478 p.)

Subjects:

Imagination in literature.
Imagination.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as: Hebraic, Greek, medieval, Romantic, existential and post-modern.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Imagination Now; The Hebraic Imagination; The Hellenic Imagination; The Medieval Imagination; The Transcendental Imagination; The Existentialist Imagination I; Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; The Existentialist Imagination II; Sartre; The Parodic Imagination; Postmodern Culture: Apocalypse Now?; Conclusion: After Imagination?; Notes; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes index.

ISBN:

1-134-81259-0
1-134-81260-4
1-280-19552-5
9786610195527
0-203-43062-X

OCLC:

171117241

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