Reading the written image : verbal play, interpretation, and the roots of iconophobia /

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Reading the Written Image is a study of the imagination as it is prompted by the verbal cues of literature. Since every literary image is also a mental image, a representation of an absent entity, Collins contends that imagination is a poiesis, a making-up, an act of play for both author and reader....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Collins, Christopher
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1991.
Temas:
Poetics.
Imagery (Psychology) in literature.
Figures of speech.
Literature > Philosophy.
Poétique.
Imagerie (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Literatur
Imagination
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Literacy and the Opening of the Inner Eye
  • Umberto Eco and the Imaginal Interpretant
  • The Oral-Mimetic Message
  • The Messenger as Objectal Entity
  • The Opening of the Inner Eye and the Hermeneutical Reaction
  • The Image of the Messenger
  • 2. Visionary Places
  • The Chamber of Horrors
  • Oracles and Dreams
  • The House of the Wind
  • Celestial Messengers
  • From Cosmos to Microcosmos
  • 3. Scripture and Poiesis
  • The Written City
  • Human Imaging and Divine Speech
  • Parousia: The Once and Future Presence of the Word
  • The Augustinian Approach
  • The Heritage of the Spoken Image
  • 4. Empiricism and Interpretive Method
  • The Empiricism of the Internal Senses
  • The Empirical Presence
  • Literary Induction
  • Structure and Function: Two Incompatible Perspectives
  • Literary Cycles and the Performing Center
  • 5. Interpretation and the Poetics of Performance
  • Enactive and Critical Interpretation
  • Instruments and Objects
  • The Instrument as Object
  • The Poem as Performance
  • Enacted Imagery
  • 6. The Poetic Focus
  • Exploration and Labor
  • Imitative Work
  • Imitative Play
  • The Poem as Verbal Play
  • Focusing Within the Intermediate Area
  • 7. Poetic Faith and the Written Image
  • Re-oralizing the Sender
  • Becoming the Addressee
  • Playing the Message
  • The Image in the Message
  • The Image of Made Belief
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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