In an era dominated by digital screens and literal interpretations, the poetics of imagination serves as a vital reclamation of the "inner life." It encourages us to:
: A critical function of poetic imagination is its ability to foster empathy, allowing a reader or thinker to "imagine oneself in the other person's skin". Practical and Intellectual Utility poetics of imagination
Kendall Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) offers a complementary analytic framework: fictions are props in games of make-believe. When we read “the monster lurks,” we imagine that a proposition is true in the fictional world. Imagination here is rule-governed, social, and quasi-perceptual. Walton dissolves the classic binary of real vs. unreal, replacing it with degrees of participation in generated worlds. In an era dominated by digital screens and
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In an era dominated by digital screens and literal interpretations, the poetics of imagination serves as a vital reclamation of the "inner life." It encourages us to:
: A critical function of poetic imagination is its ability to foster empathy, allowing a reader or thinker to "imagine oneself in the other person's skin". Practical and Intellectual Utility
Kendall Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) offers a complementary analytic framework: fictions are props in games of make-believe. When we read “the monster lurks,” we imagine that a proposition is true in the fictional world. Imagination here is rule-governed, social, and quasi-perceptual. Walton dissolves the classic binary of real vs. unreal, replacing it with degrees of participation in generated worlds.
