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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... happens . If it did happen , it would move out of the world of imagination into the world of action . We have three levels of the mind now , and a lan- guage for each of them , which in English - speaking societies means an English for ...
... of our own lives . Let's leave this for a bit and turn to the question of imagery . What happens when a poet , say , uses an image , an object in nature , like a flock of sheep or a field of flowers ? If he does use them , 65 GIANTS IN ...
... happens to be a twentieth - century middle class society , pre- sents our imagination with its own substitute for liter- ature . This is a social mythology , with its own folklore and its own literary conventions , or what corresponds ...