Recent work in aesthetics, to some extent inspired by the seminal writings of Sartre and Wittgenstein, has devoted considerable attention to the study of creative imagination.
GROSSMAN--William I., M.D.The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination mourns the death of its Board Member, Dr. William I. Grossman.
"BRAINWAVE" A half-dozen New York cultural institutions — ranging from the Rubin Museum of Art to the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute — have organized this multi-genre festival exploring the interaction between the arts and the brain.
He argued instead that young people need to have their mental powers developed and nourished by promoting their memories through the study of languages and enhancing their imaginations through reading poets, historians, and orators.
History, which Wimsatt so stridently excluded from the study of literature, had entered Greenblatt's imagination.
But the very magnitude of the catastrophe it represented for liberal civilisation has tended to paralyse historical imagination, fixing the study of it in patriotic apology or moral lament still two of the dominant modes of writing about the Great War.
"You have to make your psychoanalytic way of thinking available to the public," said Dr. Edward Nersessian, a founder of the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, a sort of literary salon that meets in the East 82nd Street building.
The study of light, reflection, and illumination also seized the imagination of German scientist August Köhler, one of Sorolla's contemporaries.
"A Woman of Property" (Penguin Poets), Robyn Schiff's third volume of poetry, is a study of the imagination's darker powers and their daily, domestic insurrections.
His two book-length studies of Victorian authors - The Violent Effigy: A Study of Dickens' Imagination (1973) and Thackeray: Prodigal Genius (1977) - started out as lectures for what must have been a very fortunate generation of undergraduates.
