Figures of Reality: A Perspective on the Poetic Imagination
Author:   Roger Cardinal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9781041009825


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Figures of Reality: A Perspective on the Poetic Imagination


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Author:   Roger Cardinal
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9781041009825


ISBN 10:   1041009828
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   01 May 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Part 1. Getting Away From Reality 1. The Attraction of the Unreal 2. The Making of Unreality 3. Towards the Logological Extreme 4. Occultation and Enigma Part 2. Coming Back to the Real 5. The Poem Opens Up to the Reader 6. The Poem Opens Onto the World Part 3. Signs of the Poetic 7. Engaging with the Poetic 8. Noticing the Signs 9. The Pattern of Analogies Part 4. Figure and Reality 10. The World as Metaphor 11. Transcendence and Transparency

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Roger Cardinal was an art scholar and Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking Outsider Art (1972), a book that introduced the English-speaking world to the concept of art brut.

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