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Romanticism and transcendence : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the religious imagination / J. Robert Barth.

Barth, J. Robert. . Romanticism and transcendence : Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the religious imagination / J. Robert Barth. 0826214533 series Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PR5892.R4 B37 2003

Pleasures of imagination [electronic resource]. A poem in three books. By Dr. Akenside.

Akenside, Mark, 1721-1770. . Pleasures of imagination [electronic resource]. A poem in three books. By Dr. Akenside. series [Edinburgh?] : Printed in the year, 1754.
Call#: Penn Library Web -

Coming to terms : the rhetoric of narrative in fiction and film / Seymour Chatman.

Chatman, Seymour Benjamin, 1928- . Coming to terms : the rhetoric of narrative in fiction and film / Seymour Chatman. 0801424852 (alk. paper) series Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1990.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN212 .C47 1990

In the chapter A New Kind of Film Adaptation, Chatman counters the critique often aimed at film adaptations based on literature: that film adaptations take away from the audience's use of imagination by displaying everything on screen. Noted scholar Wolfgang Iser is quoted by Chatman saying that, "The point here is that the reader is able to visualize the hero virtually for himself. The moment these possibilities are narrowed down to one complete and immutable picture, the imagination is put out of action." Chatman argues that the imagination is not excluded by the visual medium of film and much can be left for the audience to imagine. In particular, dialogue and narration do not always present what the characters are thinking or feeling in film. For example, body language and expression often go unexplained by direct conversation or even diegetic context in the film.

Chatman mentions Rashomon as an excellent adaptation that invokes the audience's imagination. Although Kurosawa directly translates the dialogue and storyline from which the film is based onto the screen, the film still leaves it to the audience's imagination to try and resolve incongruities and figure out what actually happened. Each of the stories in Rashomon represents what the characters think and believe, however, imagination is not limited by this straightforward presentation of the characters' perspective. In fact, it turns out that these presentations are not straightforward after all. Although everything is presented to the audience visually, there is room to play with and entice the imagination of the audience.

In many ways, the term he uses, imagination, may be inadequate. What he is referring to is the workings of the human mind in its entirety. Rashomon inspires thoughts that do not fall under the scope of imagination, namely critical-thinking, rationalism and emotion. These thought processes make the audience active participants in the film.

Romanticism in perspective, a comparative study of aspects of the Romantic movements in England, France and Germany / [by] Lilian R. Furst.

Furst, Lilian R. . Romanticism in perspective, a comparative study of aspects of the Romantic movements in England, France and Germany / [by] Lilian R. Furst. [0333088859 ] London ; Melbourne [etc.], Macmillan ; New York, St. Martin's P., 1969.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN603 .F8 1969

Inidividualism as a creed, its effects on form and the relationship to nature, of the Romantic hero. Role of imagination, its 'esemplastic,' mediating, modifying powers, at work. Relative importance of feeling, its expression, 'overflow,' 'spontaneous.'

worthwhile choronological chart of publications

2nd edition (1979) pp. 119-209 cited by mark evan bonds

Literal imagination : Blake's vision of words / Nelson Hilton.

Hilton, Nelson. . Literal imagination : Blake's vision of words / Nelson Hilton. [0520044630 ] Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PR4148.L33 H55 1983

cited by Body Criticism

Biancorosso article, part 1, vol 3 issue 1 spring 2001

Beginning Credits and Beyond: Music and the Cinematic Imagination in Echo

Brain is the screen : Deleuze and the philosophy of cinema / Gregory Flaxman, editor.

Brain is the screen : Deleuze and the philosophy of cinema / Gregory Flaxman, editor. [0816634467 (HC : alk. paper) ] Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1995 .B714 2000

Art and illusion; a study in the psychology of pictorial representation [by] E. H. Gombrich.

Gombrich, E. H. (Ernst Hans), 1909-2001. . Art and illusion; a study in the psychology of pictorial representation [by] E. H. Gombrich. New York, Bollingen Foundation, distributed by] Pantheon Books [1961]
Call#: N70 .G615 1961

cited by Newcomb

JSTOR: 19th-Century Music: Vol. 21, No. 1, p. 38

"Tableaux vivants: Landscape, History Painting, and the Visual Imagination in Mendelssohn's Orchestral Music," Thomas S. Grey, 19th-Century Music, 1997

Female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle.

Castle, Terry. . Female thermometer : eighteenth-century culture and the invention of the uncanny / Terry Castle. [0195080971 ] New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.
Call#: PR448.G6 C37 1995

baroque paper

Melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess : with a new preface / Peter Brooks.

Brooks, Peter, 1938- . Melodramatic imagination : Balzac, Henry James, melodrama, and the mode of excess : with a new preface / Peter Brooks. [0300065531 ] New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Rosengarten Reserve PN1912 .B7 1995

cited by Mary Ann Smart

Emblems of mind : the inner life of music and mathematics / Edward Rothstein.

Rothstein, Edward. . Emblems of mind : the inner life of music and mathematics / Edward Rothstein. [0812922980 : ] New York : Times Books/Random House, c1995.
Call#: Van Pelt Library ML3800 .R62 1995

Late Beethoven : music, thought, imagination / Maynard Solomon.

Solomon, Maynard. . Late Beethoven : music, thought, imagination / Maynard Solomon. [0520237463 (alk. paper) ] Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Rosengarten Reserve ML410.B4 S655 2003

Music and Image

Body in the mind : the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason / Mark Johnson.

Johnson, Mark, 1949- . Body in the mind : the bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason / Mark Johnson. [0226403173 : ] Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Call#: Van Pelt Library B105.M4 J64 1987

pp. 139-72 cited by mark evan bonds

Creative imagination : Enlightenment to Romanticism / James Engell.

Engell, James, 1951- . Creative imagination : Enlightenment to Romanticism / James Engell. [0674175727 ] Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.
Call#: [z] Lost copy. B105.I49 E53

cited by mark evan bonds