Imaginative experience in the arts promoting liberal education / Charles Altieri.

Author/creator Altieri, Charles, 1942
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesBloomsbury studies in philosophy and poetry
Contents Three basic powers of imagination -- My fourth power of imagination : Woolf's To the lighthouse on sympathy and empathy -- Examples of how Cézanne treats realization and a rationale for "indicative criticism" -- Mapping the concept of experience -- Self-consciousness in aesthetic experience : why Heidegger's book on Hegel can matter for literary criticism.
Abstract "Carefully argued with exemplary readings of poems, paintings and fiction, Poiesis outlines a new impetus for criticism and liberal education grounded in the way art stimulates our powers of imagination and enriches our experience of the world. In contrast to literary critics and philosophers who argue for the importance of aesthetic experience by subordinating it to knowledge and practical concerns, Altieri defends a view of subjective imaginative experience as important in itself, and already socially oriented. Chapters test Altieri's concepts about the nature of aesthetic experience against readings of canonical poems, novels and paintings, by Langston Hughes, Giorgione, Cézanne, Silvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Baudelaire, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams and Mina Loy. Two appendices cover the limitations of AI poetry, and review other important arguments for the powers of imagination"-- Provided by publisher.
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