Higher education is at a pivotal point of reflection due to the forces of neoliberalism, anti-Blackness, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In the past, higher education has overlooked the university's far future, opting to focus on readily conspicuous change. Along with this disregarded conversation, these crises present higher education faculty,…

Retells the history of United States rhetorical studies as a negotiation over the meaning of the concepts of invention and imagination. Provides a genealogical outline of the transformation of the imagination in rhetorical theory. Concludes by urging a consideration of the "imaginary," a psychoanalytic understanding of the collective unconscious,…

Narrates the experiences that the author encountered growing up in his native South Africa. Maintains the omnipresence of poetry and the need to educate the imagination to see and hear poetry everywhere. Considers ways of salvaging the imagination. (HB)

Damp Valley U granted Jeff tenure after six years. Then, four years later, he found himself sweating through a post-tenure interrogation. The damning charges: uttering the word "foreman," involvement with a men's group, failure to note that 50 percent of cowgirls were black. Thomas Reeves enumerates the punishment meted out to his white male…

Discusses the books of Tolkien according to six basic movements in plot; warns against trying to use these books for classroom instruction. (MAI)

The books listed in this annotated bibliography are tales of fantasy and have the elements of real magic, enchantment, an imaginary world, internal logic or laws, heroes, a quest, and good versus evil. Entries, listed alphabetically by author, include the title, publisher, date, price, and a brief description of the literary work. Lists of sources…

Written to encourage imaginative approaches to teaching writing, this paper contains ideas for developing writing skills by encouraging creative writing, formal analysis, and criticism despite the traditional lack of literary analysis in the creative writing classroom. In addition to including teaching techniques for practicing literary skills…

This book provides the general reader with an introduction to the field of imaginative fiction. The first two chapters describe the growth of science fiction from Aristophanes to Asimov and give the history of its parent literature, fantasy. The rest of the book affords the apprentice writer an overview of skills necessary for creating imaginative…

Discusses research into the bi-modal nature of the human brain and what it suggests regarding the inclusion of feeling and imagination in the teaching of English. (DD)

This paper develops a relationship between the dynamics of sexual-fantasy response and the dynamics of literary response that could be exploited by encouraging students to learn by inventing, to fantasize, and to suspend their disbelief when reading all kinds of literature. Just as sexual fantasy focuses attention on the pleasures of sexual…

Science fiction and fantasy play an important role in shaping the future while stimulating readers' imaginations. They expand our consciousness and provide living images of the world of creation, not as it is or was, but as it has the potential of becoming. Any literature, art form, or medium of expression which is capable of affecting the…

The similarities between television viewing and fantasy activity (daydreaming, reverie, mind-wandering, internal dialogue) more than warrant the building of a theoretical construct, especially in the context of recent empirical research on television viewing consequences. A construct of the television viewing process, based on cognitive theories…

Successful fantasies may either force us to look freshly at everyday things or expand our capacity to believe.

This second issue of a new journal presents six essays all on the theme of the imagination. New programming at the Touchstone Center has begun to focus on the importance of finding new forums for reflecting upon the place of the imagination in people's lives. The essays in this issue come from presenters in recent public lectures and workshops…

Educational imagery is introduced as an innovative classroom technique that allows students to isolate themselves mentally and to apply their imaginations to teacher-directed scenarios to accomplish a variety of educational objectives. In this book, the rationale and procedures for using educational imagery with secondary school and college…