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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... play of Shakespeare's , you know that there never were any such people as Hamlet or Fal- staff . There may once have been a prince in Denmark named Amleth , or there may have been somebody called Sir John Fastolf - in fact there was ...
... play freely around with hypotheses , and so forth , no scientist could get anywhere . But all imaginative effort in prac- tical fields has to meet the test of practicability , other- wise it's discarded . The imagination in literature ...
... play , and a play is supposed to be entertaining . Now in what sense can a scene like that be entertaining ? The fact that it's not really happening is certainly im- portant . It would be degrading to watch a real blind- ing scene , and ...