Poetry and Imagined Worlds

✍ Scribed by Olga V. Lehmann, Nandita Chaudhary, Ana Cecilia Bastos, Emily Abbey (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
A Liaison of Poetry and Tattoos: The Multivoicedness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem “The Raven” (Meike Watzlawik)....Pages 3-22
Beauty of the Back (Jaan Valsiner)....Pages 23-41
Poetry in and for Society: Poetic Messages, Creativity, and Social Change (Gemma Argüello Manresa, Vlad Glăveanu)....Pages 43-62
The Poetics Within Performance Art: The Developmental Nature of Artistic Creative Processes (Lia da Rocha Lordelo)....Pages 63-80
Commentary: Poesis and Imagination (Tania Zittoun)....Pages 81-95
Front Matter ....Pages 97-97
Living Against and Persistence of Being: Poetic Sharing of Being Sensitive Within Antagonistic Worlds (Ana Cecília Bastos, Glenn E. Rucker)....Pages 99-119
Rimbauding Worlds: Creation of Deranging Senses (Maria Eloisa do Amaral Leão, Danilo Silva Guimarães)....Pages 121-138
Living in Verse: Sites of the Poetic Imagination (Mark Freeman)....Pages 139-154
Apprehending Beauty: Ordinary People’s Experiences of the “Poetic Instant” in India (Nandita Chaudhary, Deepa Chawla, Ayesha Sindhu)....Pages 155-173
“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
Commentary: On Poetics, Art and Life (Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich)....Pages 197-206
Front Matter ....Pages 207-207
Imagined Sea (Maria Virgínia Dazzani, Giuseppina Marsico)....Pages 209-222
Living with “Encantados”: Dances of Poet and Scientist Within the Self (Emily Abbey, Ana Cecilia Bastos)....Pages 223-238
Poetic Gestures of Life (Monika Abels)....Pages 239-253
Dialogue as Poetic Imagination in the Way of Tea (Kyoko Murakami)....Pages 255-273
Commentary: The Poetics of Daily Life—The Invisible Becomes Visible (Kristiina Uriko)....Pages 275-280
Conclusive Remarks: Writing Toward the Core—Poetically Framing a Science of Cultural Psychology (Olga V. Lehmann, Nandita Chaudhary, Emily Abbey)....Pages 281-290
Back Matter ....Pages 291-301

✦ Subjects

Personality and Social Psychology