Title: The Quest for imagination; essays in twentieth century aesthetic criticism.
Authors: Hardison, O. B.,; Hardison, O. B., 1928-1990; Hardison, O. B., 1928-1990,
Publisher: Press of Case Western Reserve University,
Year: 1971
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern; Criticism (Philosophy); Imagination.
Contents: Nineteenth-century backgrounds of modern aesthetic criticism / Kevin Kerrane -- Reason and imagination in Santayana's Theory of art / Jerome Ashmore -- Stevens on imagination--the point of departure / Joseph N. Riddel -- From language to the art of language : Cassirer's aesthetic / Walter F. Eggers, Jr. -- Susanne Langer : unity and diversity among the arts / Reid Huntley -- Jacques Maritain's aesthetics : to distinguish, to unite / D. Newton Smith -- The quest for pure consciousness in Husserl and Mallarmé / Neal Oxenhandler -- Jean-Paul Sarte : the engaged imagination / Charles Altieri -- Georges Poulet's "Criticism of identification" / J. Hillis Miller -- Gaston Bachelard's theory of the poetic imagination : psychoanalysis to phenomenology / Neil Forsyth -- Northrop Frye and the necessary hybrid : criticism as aesthetic humanism / Peter Cummings -- Aesthetic criticism, freedom, and the goals of the humanities / Eugene H. Falk.