Free Download Susan C. Staub, "Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination "
English | ISBN: 9463721339 | 2023 | 302 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Writing on the cusp of modern botany and during the heyday of English herbals and garden manuals, Shakespeare references at least 180 plants in his works and makes countless allusions to horticultural and botanical practices. Shakespeare's Botanical Imagination moves plants to the foreground of analysis and brings together some of the rich and innovative ways that scholars are expanding the discussion of plants and botany in Shakespeare's writings. The essays gathered here all emphasize the interdependence and entanglement of plants with humans and human life, whether culturally, socially, or materially, and vividly illustrate the fundamental role plants play in human identity. As they attend to the affinities and shared materiality between plants and humans in Shakespeare's works, these essays complicate the comfortable Aristotelian hierarchy of human-animal-plant. And as they do, they often challenge the privileged position of humans in relation to non-human life.

Free Download Philosophical Imagination: Thought Experiments and Arguments in Antiquity
Boris Vezjak
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1527569756 | 265 Pages | True PDF | 2.74 MB

Free Download Edward Cahill, "Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States"
English | ISBN: 0812244125 | 2012 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination-philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime-on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth century. Far from being too busy with politics and commerce or too anxious about the morality of pleasure, American writers consistently turned to ideas of the imagination in order to comprehend natural and artistic objects, social formations, and political institutions. Cahill argues that conceptual tensions within aesthetic theory rendered it an evocative language for describing the challenges of American political liberty and confronting the many contradictions of nation formation. His analyses reveal the centrality of aesthetics to key political debates during the colonial crisis, the Revolution, Constitutional ratification, and the advent of Jeffersonian democracy.

Free Download Imagination: Three Models of Imagination in the Age of the Knowledge Economy By Peter Murphy, Michael A. Peters, Simon Marginson
2010 | 401 Pages | ISBN: 1433105284 | PDF | 10 MB
Imagination examines the collective social imagination, the global imagination and the higher education imagination. Themes of the nature of imagination, creation and discovery along with those of thinking, image and practice are discussed. The role of the imagination in the contexts of world, nation and university is analysed.

Free Download Imagination: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei
English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 0198830025 | True EPUB | 160 pages | 2.2 MB
Imagination: A Very Short Introduction explores imagination as a cognitive power and an essential dimension of human flourishing, demonstrating how imagination plays multiple roles in human cognition and shapes humanity in profound ways.

Free Download Peter Langland-Hassan, "Explaining Imagination"
English | ISBN: 0198815069 | 2020 | 336 pages | EPUB | 1098 KB
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Free Download Carol E. Bouzoukis, "Encouraging Your Child's Imagination: A Guide and Stories for Play Acting"
English | 2011 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 144221287X | EPUB | 24,5 mb
iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood. Are our children losing their imagination, too? Carol Bouzoukis gives us just the remedy.

Free Download Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009396714 | 553 Pages | PDF | 12 MB
Classical Antiquity and the Cinematic Imagination is an intriguing topic that delves into the representation of ancient Greece and Rome in films. This study aims to explore how ancient civilizations have been portrayed in movies and what impact these portrayals have had on modern audiences. The focus will be on the cinematic imagination of classical antiquity and how it has evolved over time.

Free Download Animation and the American Imagination: A Brief History by Gordon B. Arnold
English | November 28, 2016 | ISBN: 1440833591 | True EPUB | 296 pages | 3.6 MB
Providing a detailed historical overview of animated film and television in the United States over more than a century, this book examines animation within the U.S. film and television industry as well as in the broader sociocultural context.

Free Download Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, "The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 2 "
English | ISBN: 0190460245 | 2019 | 704 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 5 MB
Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true for the role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors shift the focus of imagination away from the visual by addressing the topic of sonic imagination and expanding the field beyond musical compositional creativity and performance technique into other aural arenas where the imagination holds similar power. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination in architectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.