Associationism and the Literary Imagination: From the Phantasmal Chaos

Provides An Account Of The Philosophical And Psychological Theories In The British Empiricist Tradition That Provoked Some Of The Most Radical Changes In Literary Form Between The Eighteenth And The Twentieth Centuries. Introduction: A Chain Of Associations -- 'kant Has Not Answered Hume': Hume, Coleridge And The Romantic Imagination -- Signs Of Mind And The Return Of The Native: Wordsworth To Yeats -- Strange Attractors And The Conversible World: Hume, Sterne, Dickens -- The Mythic Method And The Foundations Of Modern Literary Criticism -- Chaos And Conversation: Pater, Joyce, Woolf -- The Lyrical Epic And The Singularity Of Literature. Cairns Craig. Title From Publisher's Bibliographic System (viewed On 02 Oct 2015). Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English