TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Imagination and fantasy in the middle ages and early modern time : projections, dreams, monsters, and illusions
T2  - Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
A2  - Classen, Albrecht, toimittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Berlin ; Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
YR  - 2020
ED  - 1. Auflage
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5696912
AB  - The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
SN  - 978-3-11-069294-5 kovakantinen
SN  - 3110692945
KW  - Före 1500
KW  - Medeltidslitteratur
KW  - Fantasi i litteraturen
KW  - Drömmar i litteraturen
KW  - Monster i litteraturen
KW  - Fantasy (litteratur) : historia
KW  - Fantasi : historia
KW  - Monsters in literature
KW  - Imagination in literature
KW  - Dreams in literature
KW  - kirjallisuudentutkimus
KW  - kirjallisuudenhistoria
KW  - keskiaika
KW  - fantasia (tyylit)
KW  - hirviöt
KW  - unet
KW  - illuusiot
KW  - mielikuvitus
ER  -