Associationism and the Literary Imagination: From the Phantasmal Chaos

by Cairns Craig

Associationism and the Literary Imagination traces the influence of empirical philosophy and associationist psychology on theories of literary creativity and on the experience of reading literature. It runs from David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature in 1739 to the works of major literary critics of the twentieth century, such as I.A. Richards, W.K. Wimsatt and Northrop Frye. Cairns Craig explores the ways in which associationist conceptions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748609121
• ISBN13: 9780748609123
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher