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Associationism and the literary imagination : from the phantasmal chaos / Cairns Craig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Craig, Cairns, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Psychological aspects.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Authorship--Psychological aspects.
- Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Associationism & the Literary Imagination
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Provides an account of the philosophical and psychological theories in the British empiricist tradition that provoked some of the most radical changes in literary form between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries.
- Contents:
- Introduction: a chain of associations
- 'Kant has not answered Hume': Hume, Coleridge and the romantic imagination
- Signs of mind and the return of the native: Wordsworth to Yeats
- Strange attractors and the conversible world: Hume, Sterne, Dickens
- The mythic method and the foundations of modern literary criticism
- Chaos and conversation: Pater, Joyce, Woolf
- The lyrical epic and the singularity of literature.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5204-3
- 0-7486-2816-9
- OCLC:
- 1302162314
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