Search results for "Imagination" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • 000. The Underground Railroad has captured public imagination as a symbol of freedom, and figures prominently in African-American history. It was a means ...
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  • Steven Swann Jones. The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination ... * Swann Jones, Steven. The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination ...
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  • American Reform and the Religious Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195037529 *Hagedorn, Ann. 2002. Beyond the River: The ...
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  • Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000 (original 1979). ISBN 0300084587 ...
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  • Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination, Ed. Raffaella Baccolini, Tom Moylan. New York: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0415966140 *Huxley, Aldous ...
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  • except dull and lifeless colors; it was his imagination that gave them relief and life, and it is almost a new sense for which I am indebted to his ...
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  • McDonald, and others. By virtue of his boundless imagination, Winston’s musical portrayals provide new textures and tones that illuminate the original ...
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  • that "the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense—which sense I propose to develop in myself ...
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  • could be sublimated through the power of poetic imagination. While his vision of a reconciled American identity fell short, his identification with the ...
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  • Christianity, Islam, and the popular imagination, hell is frequently depicted as a fiery pit located underground where souls are tormented by ...
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  • down to each decorous detail, captured the imagination of the public as no other modern royal event. ==Marriage and Family Life== ...
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  • possible means not what we may picture in our imagination, but what can actually exist and last. Now this world is arranged as it had to be if it were ...
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  • Pericles of Athens, who combined a daring imagination and intellect with caution, moderation, and stability. Each of these four men faced opposition from ...
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  • ups; this has become so much the stuff of our imagination these days that it is only natural, it seems, to expect it when we turn to ancient texts ...
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  • physical reality; it is a realm generated by the imagination based on sensory stimuli. Virtual reality in this sense is a solitary, non-social realm, ...
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  • Picchu to the world in 1911 fired the public imagination, and set in motion an ever-increasing flow of curious visitors from around the world. Some ...
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  • rhythms of taiko drum ensembles captured the imagination of percussion enthusiasts all over the world. In 1969, Tagayasu Den founded the taiko ...
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  • likeness or species from sense images in the imagination. 20. Through these intelligible likenesses or species we directly know universals, i ...
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  • occurs through appealing to the imagination, especially through artistic ... and toys and dolls that encourage the imagination are "intrinsic to ...
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  • unreliable neurotic with an overheated imagination. To further muddy the ... * Henry James: The Imagination of Genius by Fred Kaplan (1992). ISBN ...
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