... who intimately connected it to the traditional theory of imagination or phantasia. Moreover, folkloric tales about the mysterious and extraordinary psychic powers exerted by special groups of women, who were often labeled as witches and ...
Tópico(s): American Constitutional Law and Politics
2017 - Springer International Publishing | Archimedes
Debra Dudek, Madalena Grobbelaar, Elizabeth Reid Boyd,
... originally connected to fairy tales, also called wonder tales and often told by women; it now denotes love and/or erotic stories. The word fantasy comes from the Greek phantasia – an image or perception that includes picturing oneself. Euphemisms like “sensual”, “steamy”, “hot”, and “spicy” have long been used in the romance genre. Today, lines are even more blurred by the emergence of a new genre, a hybrid of romance-focussed ...
Tópico(s): Literacy, Media, and Education
2024 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
... necessarily because it interested Borges. That a fantastical tale or a detective story can be interpreted as an intervention in philosophical discussions of life and death, the concept and the example, time and causation, freedom and choice, and so on, the awareness of this we owe more to Borges than to any other writer in the Western canon. Recalling Borges's equation of the imagination with Greek phantasia, Johnson asserts that “the fantastic … is the only ...
2015 - Penn State University Press | Interdisciplinary Literary Studies
... sensi interni e sulle complesse relazioni anima-corpo; tale problema attraversa l’intera storia della filosofia, dalla tarda antichità fino al radicale mutamento di prospettiva operato da Cartesio, Spinoza, Malebranche e dai grandi maestri del Seicento. Da queste ricerche emergono le differenze semantico-concettuali e le diverse valutazioni della phantasia, della imaginatio, intesa come cogitatio, o ragionamento estimativo ...
Tópico(s): Historical Philosophy and Science
2005 - Brepols | Textes et études du Moyen Age
... sensi interni e sulle complesse relazioni anima-corpo; tale problema attraversa l’intera storia della filosofia, dalla tarda antichità fino al radicale mutamento di prospettiva operato da Cartesio, Spinoza, Malebranche e dai grandi maestri del Seicento. Da queste ricerche emergono le differenze semantico-concettuali e le diverse valutazioni della phantasia, della imaginatio, intesa come cogitatio, o ragionamento estimativo ...
Tópico(s): Historical Philosophy and Science
2005 - Brepols | Textes et études du Moyen Age
... sensi interni e sulle complesse relazioni anima-corpo; tale problema attraversa l’intera storia della filosofia, dalla tarda antichità fino al radicale mutamento di prospettiva operato da Cartesio, Spinoza, Malebranche e dai grandi maestri del Seicento. Da queste ricerche emergono le differenze semantico-concettuali e le diverse valutazioni della phantasia, della imaginatio, intesa come cogitatio, o ragionamento estimativo ...
Tópico(s): Islamic Thought and Society Studies
2005 - Brepols | Textes et études du Moyen Age
... 1), but also considers important the Greek term phantasia, translated as “imaginative conception” (2). Part I, “Themes ... encompasses both the modern “fantasy” and the ancient phantasia. It is not clear, therefore, how Anderson’s “ ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2020 - Classical Association of the Middle West and South | The Classical Journal
... werewolf threat from Europe. Johannes Dillinger's “‘Species,’ ‘Phantasia,’ ‘Raison’: Werewolves and Shape-Shifters in Demonological Literature,” ... the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She contends that tales of wolf-men probably entered the region along ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2016 - Penn State University Press | Preternature Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural
... Matthew Little and Robert Babcock, ‘“Amplius in Coitu Phantasia”: Pound's “Cavalcanti” and Avicenna's De Almahad’, ...
Tópico(s): Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Textual Practice