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Poetry And Imagined Worlds

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Editors:
  1. Olga V. Lehmann

    1. Department of Psychology, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Fylke, Norway

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  2. Nandita Chaudhary

    1. Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

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  3. Ana Cecilia Bastos

    1. Catholic University of Salvador and Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

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  4. Emily Abbey

    1. Department of Psychology, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, USA

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  • Brings together international scholars from the fields of psychology, creativity and literature
  • Looks into the challenging question of how the arts and poetry in particular is used in human decision making and our search for meaning
  • Focuses on contemporary challenges in these areas

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture (PASCC)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Poetic Resources as Tools to Make Meaning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. A Liaison of Poetry and Tattoos: The Multivoicedness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem “The Raven”

      • Meike Watzlawik
      Pages 3-22

    3. Beauty of the Back

      • Jaan Valsiner
      Pages 23-41

    4. Poetry in and for Society: Poetic Messages, Creativity, and Social Change

      • Gemma Argüello Manresa, Vlad Glăveanu
      Pages 43-62

    5. The Poetics Within Performance Art: The Developmental Nature of Artistic Creative Processes

      • Lia da Rocha Lordelo
      Pages 63-80

    6. Commentary: Poesis and Imagination

      • Tania Zittoun
      Pages 81-95

  3. The Poetic Roots of Creativity and Imagination

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Living Against and Persistence of Being: Poetic Sharing of Being Sensitive Within Antagonistic Worlds

      • Ana Cecília Bastos, Glenn E. Rucker
      Pages 99-119

    3. Rimbauding Worlds: Creation of Deranging Senses

      • Maria Eloisa do Amaral Leão, Danilo Silva Guimarães
      Pages 121-138

    4. Living in Verse: Sites of the Poetic Imagination

      • Mark Freeman
      Pages 139-154

    5. Apprehending Beauty: Ordinary People’s Experiences of the “Poetic Instant” in India

      • Nandita Chaudhary, Deepa Chawla, Ayesha Sindhu
      Pages 155-173

    6. “The Tune Without the Words”: Dickinson’s Verses in a Jazz Ensemble—A Case Study on the Poetics of Music and the Musicality of Poetry

      • Olga V. Lehmann, Sven Hroar Klempe
      Pages 175-195

    7. Commentary: On Poetics, Art and Life

      • Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich
      Pages 197-206

  4. The Poetics of Daily Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
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    2. Imagined Sea

      • Maria Virgínia Dazzani, Giuseppina Marsico
      Pages 209-222

    3. Living with “Encantados”: Dances of Poet and Scientist Within the Self

      • Emily Abbey, Ana Cecilia Bastos
      Pages 223-238

    4. Poetic Gestures of Life

      • Monika Abels
      Pages 239-253

    5. Dialogue as Poetic Imagination in the Way of Tea

      • Kyoko Murakami
      Pages 255-273

    6. Commentary: The Poetics of Daily Life—The Invisible Becomes Visible

      • Kristiina Uriko
      Pages 275-280
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About this book

This book explores the deep, imaginative, and creative power of poetry as part of the human experience.  How poetry provides insight into human psychology is a question at the beginning of its theoretical development, and is a constant challenge for cultural psychologists and the humanities alike. Poetry functions, in all ages and cultures, as a rite that merges the beauty, truth and the unbearable conditions of existence.  Both the general and the particular can be found in its expression.  Collectively the authors aim to evoke a holistic understanding of what poetry conveys about decision making and the human search for meaning. This ground-breaking collection will be indispensable to scholars of clinical and theoretical psychology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, aesthetics and sociology.

Reviews

“This book is an extraordinary achievement: Written and edited by scholars from every corner of the world who stage a meeting of poetry and the human mind. Poetry is depicted as much more than lyrical words in books, for there is a poetic of our lives that is absolutely fundamental, but which the sciences of the mind have ignored all too often. With this excellent collection it is time to put poetics at the center stage of our understanding of psychology and related disciplines.” (Professor Svend Brinkman, Knowledge Group Manager, Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark)

“This exciting volume takes readers on a fascinating cross-disciplinary journey across multiple fields, including psychological science, literary studies, and cultural studies. I highly recommend this journey!” (Fathali M. Moghaddam, Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Georgetown University, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Fylke, Norway

    Olga V. Lehmann

  • Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

    Nandita Chaudhary

  • Catholic University of Salvador and Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

    Ana Cecilia Bastos

  • Department of Psychology, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, USA

    Emily Abbey

About the editors

Olga V. Lehmann researches at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 

Nandita Chaudhary is Associate Professor at the University of Delhi, India. 


Ana Cecilia Bastos is Professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. 


Emily Abbey is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.

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