The marvelous in stories and the magic of the mind
Subtitle: the role of the imagination in learning and knowing.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 97
Subjects: Imagination.; Marvelous, The.; Marvelous, The, in literature.; Learning.
Description: Across diverse literary genres, from fairy tales to magic realism, there exists a collection of stories infused with the marvelous, here called  marvelous stories. In an unfolding of texts and images, this work recreates an arts-based, postmodern self-study of marvelous stories and their intimate connection with the human mind. The reader will encounter quotes from marvelous stories the author has read, the author's own creative writing and photography, journal entries, and academic speculations. These texts combine to present the author's experience: Freedom from the rules of reality provoked a freedom in her thinking, releasing her intuitive knowledge through the marvelous. An examination of concepts such as intuition, imagination, meaning, metaphor, and language locate this study amidst the philosophies of literary criticism, postmodernism, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and epistemology. Gradually, an argument evolves for the marvelous story as an arts-based education tool that retrains us to think with the whole self.
Notes: Adviser: Jean Mason.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0668.

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