Manuscript of The Make Believe
| Author | : David Nicholas Schaffer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 1926 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Download Manuscript of The Make Believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Manuscript Of The Make Believe PDF Download
Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Manuscript Of The Make Believe PDF full book. Access full book title Manuscript Of The Make Believe.
Minders of Make-believe
| Author | : Leonard S. Marcus |
| Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780395674079 |
Download Minders of Make-believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Marcus offers this animated history of the visionaries--editors, illustrators, and others--whose books have transformed American childhood and American culture.
Religion as Make-Believe
| Author | : Neil Van Leeuwen |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 311 |
| Release | : 2023-11-21 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0674294920 |
Download Religion as Make-Believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
To understand the nature of religious belief, we must look at how our minds process the world of imagination and make-believe. We often assume that religious beliefs are no different in kind from ordinary factual beliefs—that believing in the existence of God or of supernatural entities that hear our prayers is akin to believing that May comes before June. Neil Van Leeuwen shows that, in fact, these two forms of belief are strikingly different. Our brains do not process religious beliefs like they do beliefs concerning mundane reality; instead, empirical findings show that religious beliefs function like the imaginings that guide make-believe play. Van Leeuwen argues that religious belief—which he terms religious “credence”—is best understood as a form of imagination that people use to define the identity of their group and express the values they hold sacred. When a person pretends, they navigate the world by consulting two maps: the first represents mundane reality, and the second superimposes the features of the imagined world atop the first. Drawing on psychological, linguistic, and anthropological evidence, Van Leeuwen posits that religious communities operate in much the same way, consulting a factual-belief map that represents ordinary objects and events and a religious-credence map that accords these objects and events imagined sacred and supernatural significance. It is hardly controversial to suggest that religion has a social function, but Religion as Make-Believe breaks new ground by theorizing the underlying cognitive mechanisms. Once we recognize that our minds process factual and religious beliefs in fundamentally different ways, we can gain deeper understanding of the complex individual and group psychology of religious faith.
Only Make Believe
| Author | : Howard Keel |
| Publisher | : Barricade Books |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
Download Only Make Believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the deliciously entertaining memoir by the coal miner's son who became an international star of stage, screen, and television. Keel speaks his mind about his many co-stars, including Judy Garland, Betty Hutton, Tammy Grimes and Katherine Greyson, to name a few.
Make Believe
| Author | : Diana Athill |
| Publisher | : Granta Books |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2012-10-04 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 184708706X |
Download Make Believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s. Despite a desperately troubled youth, he became an eloquent spokesman for the black underclass, was Jean Seberg's lover and published a book about Malcolm X, before descending into a mania that had him believing he was God. A witness to his struggles, Diana Athill writes with her characteristic honesty about her entanglement with Jamal, Jamal's relationship with the daughter of a British MP, Gail Benson, and Jamal's, and separately Gail's, eventual murders.
The Natural History of Make-believe
| Author | : John Goldthwaite |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 397 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0195038061 |
Download The Natural History of Make-believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Man in the Moon has dropped down to earth for a visit. Over the hedge, a rabbit in trousers is having a pipe with his evening paper. Elsewhere, Alice is passing through a looking glass, Dorothy riding a tornado to Oz, and Jack climbing a beanstalk to heaven. To enter the world of children's literature is to journey to a realm where the miraculous and the mundane exist side by side, a world that is at once recognizable and real--and enchanted. Many books have probed the myths and meanings of children's stories, but Goldthwaite's Natural History is the first exclusively to survey the magic that lies at the heart of the literature. From the dish that ran away with the spoon to the antics of Brer Rabbit and Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat, Goldthwaite celebrates the craft, the invention, and the inspired silliness that fix these tales in our minds from childhood and leave us in a state of wondering to know how these things can be. Covering the three centuries from the fairy tales of Charles Perrault to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, he gathers together all the major imaginative works of America, Britain, and Europe to show how the nursery rhyme, the fairy tale, and the beast fable have evolved into modern nonsense verse and fantasy. Throughout, he sheds important new light on such stock characters as the fool and the fairy godmother and on the sources of authors as diverse as Carlo Collodi, Lewis Carroll, and Beatrix Potter. His bold claims will inspire some readers and outrage others. He hails Pinocchio, for example, as the greatest of all children's books, but he views C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia as a parable that is not only murderously misogynistic, but deeply blasphemous as well. Fresh, incisive, and utterly original, this rich literary history will be required reading for anyone who cares about children's books and their enduring influence on how we come to see the world.
Mimesis as Make-Believe
| Author | : Kendall L. Walton |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 472 |
| Release | : 1993-10-15 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0674268229 |
Download Mimesis as Make-Believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Representations—in visual arts and in fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Kendall Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation, which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Drawing analogies to children’s make believe activities, Walton constructs a theory that addresses a broad range of issues: the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, how depiction differs from description, the notion of points of view in the arts, and what it means for one work to be more “realistic” than another. He explores the relation between appreciation and criticism, the character of emotional reactions to literary and visual representations, and what it means to be caught up emotionally in imaginary events. Walton’s theory also provides solutions to the thorny philosophical problems of the existence—or ontological standing—of fictitious beings, and the meaning of statements referring to them. And it leads to striking insights concerning imagination, dreams, nonliteral uses of language, and the status of legends and myths. Throughout Walton applies his theoretical perspective to particular cases; his analysis is illustrated by a rich array of examples drawn from literature, painting, sculpture, theater, and film. Mimesis as Make-Believe is important reading for everyone interested in the workings of representational art.
The History of Make-Believe
| Author | : Holly Haynes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2003-12-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520236505 |
Download The History of Make-Believe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"In The History of Make-Believe, Holly Haynes acutely queries the relationship of historiography, historical reality, and symbolic representations of lived historical processes. This is a serious book, informed by wide reading, and full of startlingly original insights on some of the most prominent and significant themes in Tacitus’s works. Indeed, it deserves close attention by anyone interested in the political and social strategies of high Imperial Rome."—T. Corey Brennan, author of The Praetorship in the Roman Republic "In Tacitus the historical truth is conveyed in literary truth-telling. Instead of leaving the two separated as we do, Holly Haynes shows that Tacitus put them together in what she calls the combination ‘make-believe.’ Her book shines with originality and intelligence while opening the way to Tacitus’s canny wisdom."—Harvey Mansfield, author of Machiavelli's Virtue
The Make-Believe Man
| Author | : Richard Harding Davis |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781985096455 |
Download The Make-Believe Man Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Make-Believe Man by Richard Harding Davis is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
The Construction and Symbolization of a Make-believe Story from Childhood to Adolescence
| Author | : Michael Lewis Miller |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 654 |
| Release | : 1976 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Construction and Symbolization of a Make-believe Story from Childhood to Adolescence Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
