Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture
Author: Nicky van Es
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2020-12-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000223876

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined, and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which people’s favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives conveyed through media in stimulating and reflecting desire in tourism. This book will have appeal in a wide variety of academic disciplines, ranging from media and cultural studies to fan- and tourism studies, cultural geography, literary studies and cultural sociology.

Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture

Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture
Author: John Gatta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2018
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0190646543

"What might it mean, existentially and spiritually, to form an intimate relation with discrete places on earth? This book offers a uniquely integrative perspective on the matter. Centered on analyzing US literatures, it reflects a theological phenomenology cognizant of the spiritualities grounded in First Nature as well as settled spaces" --

Facs - Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies

Facs - Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies
Author: Ilaria Serra
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2007-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1581129726

The editors of the "Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies" literary journal provide a forum for comparative study in the arts, humanities, language, culture, and social sciences.

The World of the Imagination

The World of the Imagination
Author: Eva T. H. Brann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 843
Release: 2016-11-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 144227364X

In this book, Eva Brann sets out no less a task than to assess the meaning of imagination in its multifarious expressions throughout western history. The result is one of those rare achievements that will make The World of the Imagination a standard reference.

Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature

Experiencing Environment and Place through Children's Literature
Author: Amy Cutter-Mackenzie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2014-06-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317979451

Recent scholarship on children’s literature displays a wide variety of interests in classic and contemporary children’s books. While environmental and ecological concerns have led to an interest in ‘ecocriticism’, as yet there is little on the significance of the ecological imagination and experience to both the authors and readers – young and old – of these texts. This edited collection brings together a set of original international research-based chapters to explore the role of children’s literature in learning about environments and places, with a focus on how children’s literature may inform and enrich our imagination, experiences and responses to environmental challenges and injustice. Contributions from Australia, Canada, USA and UK explore the diverse ways in which children’s literature can provide what are arguably some of the first and possibly most formative engagements that some children might have with ‘nature’. Chapters examine classic and new storybooks, mythic tales, and image-based and/or written texts read at home, in school and in the field. Contributors focus on exploring how children’s literature mediates and informs our imagination and understandings of diverse environments and places, and how it might open our eyes and lives to other presences, understandings and priorities through stories, their telling and re-telling, and their analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

The Mnemonic Imagination

The Mnemonic Imagination
Author: E. Keightley
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2012-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113727154X

An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination.

The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place

The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place
Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-10-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 178914275X

English art critic John Ruskin was one of the great visionaries of his time, and his influential books and letters on the power of art challenged the foundations of Victorian life. He loved looking. Sometimes it informed the things he wrote, but often it provided access to the many topographical and cultural topics he explored—rocks, plants, birds, Turner, Venice, the Alps. In The Art of Ruskin and the Spirit of Place, John Dixon Hunt focuses for the first time on what Ruskin drew, rather than wrote, offering a new perspective on Ruskin’s visual imagination. Through analysis of more than 150 drawings and sketches, many reproduced here, he shows how Ruskin’s art shaped his writings, his thoughts, and his sense of place.

Best Advice

Best Advice
Author: William J. Carl III
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2009-02-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1611640059

This book gathers a diverse group of leading pastors and preachers and asks them, what is your best advice to colleagues in ministry about preaching and being a pastor? The responses are full of wisdom and practical advice, illuminating and helpful for all who are pastors and preachers. This book is a unique window into perspectives on ministry in the twenty-first century. It is an ideal book to give to one's pastor or a graduating seminarian. It is one pastors will turn to often for inspiration, insight, and wisdom.