Sentence examples for critical imagination from inspiring English sources

Her 16th critical work, it shows her undiminished relish for writing, and a critical imagination as piercingly astute as ever: she had already begun another book, on Elizabeth Gaskell.

Anyone who doubts the almost totalitarian hold Pitchfolk paradigms Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes have exercised over the mainstream critical imagination in 2008 should probably turn to the introduction to Uncut magazine's review of the year.

"The book was called William Hazlitt's Radical Style and while it was meant to look like a critical study," he says, "I also intended it as an epic of the critical imagination.

And just as Masaccio comes to alter irrevocably our understanding of Giotto, so each inning alters irrevocably the meaning of every inning that has preceded it... Just as painting, then, seems able to be better grasped by a historical than by a purely critical imagination, so baseball's most inspired observers are historians.

The former Poet Laureate Robert Hass is rarely recognized for his prose, but this book from 2012 — another essay collection I very much admired — sits astride his poetry, taking up many of its major themes (the natural world, the creative process, late-modern spirituality, Czeslaw Milosz) and exploring them through a fantastically agile and engaging critical imagination.

The author of "The Anxiety of Influence" (1973), Mr. Bloom is perhaps best known for his Freudian theory of poetic influence, which suggests that writers are shaped by their Oedipal struggle to free themselves from the legacy of their literary forefathers, and this volume underscores what a fierce hold this theory still exerts over his critical imagination.

But Schmoozy leaves behind something far more critical: her imagination.

His conception of Australia reflected in The Tree of Man (1955), Voss (1957), Riders in the Chariot (1961), The Solid Mandala (1966), and The Twyborn Affair (1979) is the product of an individual, critical, poetic imagination.

The humanities, arts, and social sciences foster the dialogue, reflection, critical thought, imagination, and speculative testing of ideas that are critical to the discussion of social and political issues (Giroux, 2014; Nussbaum, 2010; Small, 2013).

Leap into this critical work with vision, imagination, and engagement.

Arts learning experiences play a vital role in developing students' capacities for critical thinking, creativity, imagination, and innovation.