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The Imaginary
About: The Imaginary is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 4807 publications have been published within this topic receiving 87663 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Witherington and Boom's introduction to this special issue in the form of an imaginary interview, led by David Boom, equally imaginary editor of The Processual Inquirer, an obscure but interesting journal that appears in imaginary physical print only, and which has so far left no traces on the Internet.
Abstract: In this article, I answer the questions from Witherington and Boom's introduction to this special issue in the form of an imaginary interview, led by David Boom, equally imaginary editor of The Processual Inquirer, an obscure but interesting journal that appears in imaginary physical print only, and which, as a consequence, has so far left no traces on the Internet….
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27 Oct 2008TL;DR: In this paper, the subject of otherness, epistemology, and ethics is discussed in the context of literature, science, and philosophy. But the focus is on the importance of differences between the two domains.
Abstract: 1. Introduction Part I. The Subject Broached: Otherness, Epistemology, and Ethics: 1. George Eliot and the hypothesis of reality Part II. Ethics Without God, or, Can 'Is' be 'Ought': 2. Is life worth living? 3. Ruskin and Darwin and the matter of matter 4. Scientific discourse as an alternative to faith 5. In defense of positivism 6. How science isn't literature: the importance of differences Part III. Literature, Secularity, and the Quest for Otherness: 7. Victorian realism 8. Dickens, secularism and agency 9. The heartbeat of the squirrel 10. Real toads in imaginary gardens, or vice versa.
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01 Jan 2001
TL;DR: Framing India as mentioned in this paper explores what Columbus searched for but did not find: India, focusing on the figures of India and the East in sixteenth and seventeenth-century European thought.
Abstract: This book explores what Columbus searched for but did not find: India. Rather than study the geographical area denoted by that word, it focuses on the figures of India and the East in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European thought. By analyzing how these figures functioned, Framing India sketches the emergence of a European colonial imaginary: ways of thinking, acting, and representing patterns of behavior that made India productive (in all senses of the word) for early modern Europe. Through careful readings of early modern cartography, Cam>es s The Lusiads, Fletcher s The Island Princess, Dryden s Amboyna, and Shakespeare s A Midsummer Night s Dream, the author reveals the subtle but formative relationships between material practices and artistic representations of India. While placing particular emphasis on England s stage representations, the book also describes England s belated entry into and eventual success in Eastern trade and colonization within broader historical and intellectual contexts. Throughout, the author draws upon a wide range of philosophical and literary texts, maps, and historical documents.
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TL;DR: The Anthropocene is fundamentally a social imaginary that is both shaped by and is reshaping tourism practice as mentioned in this paper, and the concept of the anthropocenic imaginary is used to describe how tourism practices are reshaped.
Abstract: The Anthropocene is fundamentally a social imaginary that is both shaped by and is reshaping tourism practice. In this article, we enroll the concept of the anthropocenic imaginary to describe how ...
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01 Apr 2002
TL;DR: This article argued that there is a definite symphysis between literary language and the political embodiment of nationalist ideology, and that the imaginary reflections and misrecognitions of land and religion have been instantiated through literary tropes and images.
Abstract: In this study the supposed difference between political nationalism and what is termed 'cultural nationalism' is interrogated. It is through literary tropes and images, after all, that the imaginary reflections and misrecognitions of land and religion have been instantiated. This study also contends that there is a definite symphysis between literary language and the political embodiment of nationalist ideology.
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