| Title | : | Poetry And Imagined Worlds |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Olga V. Lehmann, Nandita Chaudhary, Ana Cecilia Bastos & Emily Abbey |
| Release | : | 2018-01-11 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Psychology, Books, Health, Mind & Body, Professional & Technical, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines, Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticism |
| Size | : | 2550630 |
| This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience. How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike. Poetry functions, in all ages and cultures, as a rite that merges the beauty, truth and the unbearable conditions of existence. Both the general and the particular can be found in its expression. Collectively the authors aim to evoke a holistic understanding of what poetry conveys about decision making and the human search for meaning. This ground-breaking collection will be indispensable to scholars of clinical and theoretical psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, aesthetics and sociology. |
