The poetics of reverie : childhood, language, and the cosmos / Gaston Bachelard ; translated from the French by Daniel Russell.

Main entry:

Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962, author.

Title & Author:

The poetics of reverie : childhood, language, and the cosmos / Gaston Bachelard ; translated from the French by Daniel Russell.

Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 1971, [1969]
©1969

Description:

vii, 212 pages ; 22 cm

Series:

Beacon paperback ; 375

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Reveries on reverie (The word dreamer) -- Reveries on Reverie ("Animus"-"Anima") -- Reveries toward childhood -- The "Cogito" of the dreamer -- Reverie and cosmos.
Published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
In English, translated from French.

Summary:

In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of "reverie"as its most dynamic point of reference. In his earlier book, "The Poetics of Space, "Bachelard considered several kinds of "praiseworthy space" conducive to the flow of poetic imagery. In "Poetics of Reverie "he considers the absolute origins of that imagery: language, sexuality, childhood, the Cartesian ego, and the universe. Approaching the psychology of wonder from the phenomenological viewpoint, Bachelard demonstrates the aurgentative "potential "of all that awareness. Thus he distinguishes what is merely a phenomenon of relaxation from the kind of reverie which "poetry puts on the right track, the track of expanding consciousness""

ISBN:

0807064130
9780807064139

Subject:

Phenomenology.
Poetry.
Dreams.
Poetry as Topic
Phénoménologie.
Poésie.
Rêves.
phenomenology.
poetry.
dreams.
Literatur
Tagtraum
Literature Philosophy.
Phenomenolgy.
Französisch.

Form/genre:

Poetry
poetry.
Poésie.

Added entries:

Russell, Daniel S., translator.
Bachelard, Gaston, 1884-1962. Poétique de la rêverie. English.
Beacon paperbacks ; 375.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289600
Call No.: BIB 232157
Status: Available

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