Sentences with phrase «imagination through literature»

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(«The irony stems from the claim common among postmodernists — particularly those engaged in literary criticism — to have moved beyond the romantic view of the self as finding «truth» through its own pure powers of imagination and the romantic understanding of literature as the expression of that imagination.)

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

Her new book, The Republic of Imagination, bears some of the hallmarks of that success — literary criticism blended with personal history — but it flips the equation, offering an assessment of Nafisi's adopted country (she became an American citizen in 2008) through the lens of her passion for literature.

Passing through the memories of a thousand years, a fiction without scientific objective but attentive to religious imagination, it is within literature that I finally saw it carrying, with its horror, its full power into effect.»

Through various references to literature and narration, Fly Paper also probes the ways in which the literary imagination parallels that of film and how the ordinary act of storytelling shapes larger histories and enduring myths.