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Intelligent digital beings as children’s imaginary social companions
Journal of Children and Media, 2021Being human brings a gift for imaginative thought, an ability that can be used to transform the very world in which we live. That gift has now brought us to a new reality in which we are rapidly changing life as we have known it. What is alive?
Sandra L. Calvert
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The deep history of imaginary worlds
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022Abstract If recent exploratory traditions tap into evolved psychological dispositions to explore, wouldn't humans be expected to have drawn on such dispositions long before the written word? Trickster oral traditions fill this role in all levels of society, affluence, and on all continents, inverting the boundaries of social worlds and those between
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Imaginary worlds pervade forager oral tradition
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022AbstractImaginary worlds recur across hunter-gatherer narrative, suggesting that they are an ancient part of human life: to understand their popularity, we must examine their origins. Hunter-gatherer fictional narratives use various devices to encode factual information.
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The familiar appeal of imaginary worlds
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022Abstract Imaginary worlds may satisfy our need to explore, but it's an open question what we are searching for. Research on imagination suggests that if we are searching for something extraordinary – something that violates our intuitions about real-world causality – then we seek it in small doses and in contexts that ultimately confirm our ...
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The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World
, 20151. Sharon R. Roseman and Nieves Herrero: Introduction 2. Nieves Herrero: Galicia's Finisterre and Coast of Death 3. Charles Menzies: At the End of the Road: Reflections on Finistere, Land's End, France 4. Michael Ireland: Land's End, Cornwall, England 5.
N. Herrero, S. Roseman
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Using imaginary worlds for real social benefits
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2022Abstract We argue that imaginary worlds gain much of their appeal because they fulfill the fundamental need of human beings to feel connected to other humans. Immersion into story worlds provides a sense of social connection to the characters and groups represented in the world.
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Imaginary Worlds, Real Stories
Folklore, 2000I am not a folklorist, but I am a vast consumer of folklore--an end user, if you like. I think about folklore in the same way that a carpenter thinks about trees, although a good carpenter works with the grain of the wood and should endeavour to make a table that will leave the tree glad that it became timber. I am an author.
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Journal of Arabic Literature, 2015
Egyptian author Waguih Ghali’s 1964 English-language novel Beer in the Snooker Club has been until now largely neglected in scholarship on the literature of the Arab world. It portrays the privileged but aimless existence of a young man in 1950s Egypt who, in the course of his travels between Cairo and London and in his interactions with his snooker ...
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Egyptian author Waguih Ghali’s 1964 English-language novel Beer in the Snooker Club has been until now largely neglected in scholarship on the literature of the Arab world. It portrays the privileged but aimless existence of a young man in 1950s Egypt who, in the course of his travels between Cairo and London and in his interactions with his snooker ...
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Inquiry, 2004
In this paper I distil a concept of the imaginary with which to make good the claim that our mode of embodied subjectivity is an imaginary embodiment in an imaginary world. The concept of the imaginary employed is not one in which imaginary worlds are contrasted with the real, but one in which imagination is a condition of there being a real for us ...
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In this paper I distil a concept of the imaginary with which to make good the claim that our mode of embodied subjectivity is an imaginary embodiment in an imaginary world. The concept of the imaginary employed is not one in which imaginary worlds are contrasted with the real, but one in which imagination is a condition of there being a real for us ...
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2014
How can parents, educators, business leaders and policy makers nurture creativity, prepare for inventiveness and stimulate innovation? One compelling answer, this book argues, lies in fostering the invention of imaginary worlds, a.k.a. worldplay. First emerging in middle childhood, this complex form of make-believe draws lifelong energy from the ...
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How can parents, educators, business leaders and policy makers nurture creativity, prepare for inventiveness and stimulate innovation? One compelling answer, this book argues, lies in fostering the invention of imaginary worlds, a.k.a. worldplay. First emerging in middle childhood, this complex form of make-believe draws lifelong energy from the ...
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