Poetry And Imagined Worlds

1. Front Matter

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2. Poetic Resources as Tools to Make Meaning

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. A Liaison of Poetry and Tattoos: The Multivoicedness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem “The Raven”

      • Meike Watzlawik

      Pages 3-22

   3. Beauty of the Back

      • Jaan Valsiner

      Pages 23-41

   4. Poetry in and for Society: Poetic Messages, Creativity, and Social Change

      • Gemma Argüello Manresa, Vlad Glăveanu

      Pages 43-62

   5. The Poetics Within Performance Art: The Developmental Nature of Artistic Creative Processes

      • Lia da Rocha Lordelo

      Pages 63-80

   6. Commentary: Poesis and Imagination

      • Tania Zittoun

      Pages 81-95

3. The Poetic Roots of Creativity and Imagination

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. Living Against and Persistence of Being: Poetic Sharing of Being Sensitive Within Antagonistic Worlds

      • Ana Cecília Bastos, Glenn E. Rucker

      Pages 99-119

   3. Rimbauding Worlds: Creation of Deranging Senses

      • Maria Eloisa do Amaral Leão, Danilo Silva Guimarães

      Pages 121-138

   4. Living in Verse: Sites of the Poetic Imagination

      • Mark Freeman

      Pages 139-154

   5. Apprehending Beauty: Ordinary People’s Experiences of the “Poetic Instant” in India

      • Nandita Chaudhary, Deepa Chawla, Ayesha Sindhu

      Pages 155-173

   6. “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

   7. Commentary: On Poetics, Art and Life

      • Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich

      Pages 197-206

4. The Poetics of Daily Life

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Imagined Sea

      • Maria Virgínia Dazzani, Giuseppina Marsico

      Pages 209-222

   3. Living with “Encantados”: Dances of Poet and Scientist Within the Self

      • Emily Abbey, Ana Cecilia Bastos

      Pages 223-238

   4. Poetic Gestures of Life

      • Monika Abels

      Pages 239-253

   5. Dialogue as Poetic Imagination in the Way of Tea

      • Kyoko Murakami

      Pages 255-273

   6. Commentary: The Poetics of Daily Life—The Invisible Becomes Visible

      • Kristiina Uriko

      Pages 275-280

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.

• Creativity
• Imagination
• Literature
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Poetics
• Applied Arts
• Psychology of the Arts
• Psychology of Creativity
• instant poetry
• REPRESENTATION poetry
• PSYCHOLOGY AND THE ARTS
• poetry in drama
• ‘poetic instant’ in India
• Musicality of Poetry
• poetry in science

“This book is an extraordinary achievement: Written and edited by scholars from every corner of the world who stage a meeting of poetry and the human mind. Poetry is depicted as much more than lyrical words in books, for there is a poetic of our lives that is absolutely fundamental, but which the sciences of the mind have ignored all too often. With this excellent collection it is time to put poetics at the center stage of our understanding of psychology and related disciplines.” (Professor Svend Brinkman, Knowledge Group Manager, Department of Communication & Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark)

“This exciting volume takes readers on a fascinating cross-disciplinary journey across multiple fields, including psychological science, literary studies, and cultural studies. I highly recommend this journey!” (Fathali M. Moghaddam, Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Georgetown University, USA)

• Department of Psychology, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Fylke, Norway

  Olga V. Lehmann

• Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

  Nandita Chaudhary

• Catholic University of Salvador and Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil

  Ana Cecilia Bastos

• Department of Psychology, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, USA

  Emily Abbey

Olga V. Lehmann researches at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 

Nandita Chaudhary is Associate Professor at the University of Delhi, India. 


Ana Cecilia Bastos is Professor at the Catholic University of Salvador and Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. 


Emily Abbey is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.

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