The Educated ImaginationIndiana University Press, 22 gen 1964 - 160 pagine Addressed to educators and general readers—the "consumers of literature" from all walks of life—this important new book explores the value and uses of literature in our time. Dr. Frye offers, in addition, challenging and stimulating ideas for the teaching of literature at lower school levels, designed both to promote an early interest and to lead the student to the knowledge and kaleidoscopic experience found in the study of literature. |
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... civilization , there's a human circumference , a little cultivated world with a human shape , fenced off from the jungle and inside the sea and the sky . But in the imagination anything goes that can be imagined , and the limit of the ...
... civilization develops , we become more preoccu- pied with human life , and less conscious of our relation to nonhuman nature . Literature reflects this , and the more advanced the civilization , the more literature seems to concern ...
... civilization literature fol- lows after a mythology . A myth is a simple and prim- itive effort of the imagination to identify the human with the nonhuman world , and its most typical result is a story about a god . Later on , mythology ...
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THE SINGING SCHOOL | 35 |
GIANTS IN TIME | 59 |
THE KEYS TO DREAMLAND | 83 |
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