Dreaming by the Book - by Elaine Scarry (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct readers in the art of mental composition in this exploration of how poets and writers employ the work of imaginative creation.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Dreaming by the Book</i> explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in which their creations will get made--the back-lit tissue of the human brain. In her brilliant synthesis of literary criticism, philosophy, and cognitive psychology, Elaine Scarry explores the principal practices by which writers bring things to life for their readers.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>"Part reverie, part rhapsody, and lucid analysis throughout."<b>--Robert Fagles, translator of Homer's <i>Iliad</i></b></p><p>"I finished <i>Dreaming by the Book</i> feeling that fundamental aspects of the nature of consciousness had been peeled open and exposed to view."<b>--Stephen M. Kosslyn, author of <i>Image and Brain</i></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Scarry] has written an appendix to Aristotle, perhaps best entitled <i>De Imaginatione</i>, though I wonder whether it fits better to the end of his <i>De Anima</i>, 'On the Soul, ' or his <i>Poetics</i>.-- "Virginia Quarterly Review"<br><br>[Scarry] is extremely ambitious, seeking nothing less than a theory of literary cognition. . . . Her interest, which is really in aesthetic success, makes her an original.<b>---James Wood, <i>New Republic</i></b><br><br>A startling inquiry . . . a truly revealing phenomenology of imagination. . . . <i>Dreaming by the Book</i> will affect how one reads fiction and poetry as few critical works have done before.<b>---Kenneth Baker, art critic, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><br>Co-Winner of the 2000 Truman Capote Award, Literary Criticism<br><br>Her approach often recalls that of . . . Descartes and Hume as she attempts to solve the riddle of how the mind works. Scarry is an original, interdisciplinary thinker. She writes like someone enraptured by both the natural world . . . and by language.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br><br>I was very excited by Elaine Scarry's dizzily ambitious <i>Dreaming by the Book</i>. Scarry's brilliantly original project is to describe a kind of grammar or algebra of the instructions by which a writer causes a mental image to be constructed in the mind of the reader.<b>---A. S. Byatt, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Elaine Scarry</b> is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics at Harvard University. Her many writings include <i>On Beauty and Being Just </i>(Princeton) and <i>The Body In Pain </i>(1986).
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