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Author Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour)

Title Actual minds, possible worlds / Jerome Bruner
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 201 pages)
Series The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
Jerusalem-Harvard lectures.
Contents Approaching the literary -- Two modes of thought -- Possible castles -- Transactional self -- Inspriation of Vygotsky -- Psychological reality -- Nelson Goodman's worlds -- Thought and emotion -- Language of education -- Developmental theory as culture
Summary Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher
Analysis Creativity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-192) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Psychology and literature.
Psycholinguistics.
Creative ability.
Imagination.
Psychology and literature
Creativity
Imagination
Psycholinguistics
psycholinguistics.
creativity.
imagination.
SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- General.
Imagination
Creative ability
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Psycholinguistics
Psychology and literature
Literaturpsychologie
Psycholinguistik
Literatur
Philosophie
Psychologie
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674029019
0674029011
0674003667
9780674003668