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The problem of belief in literature.

I. J. Fourie
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap | Vol 22, No 5-6 | a1953 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koers.v22i5/6.1953 | © 1955 I. J. Fourie | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 20 February 1955 | Published: 20 February 1955

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The writing of imaginative literature is a creative activity and a function of what Coleridge calls the “Esemplastiv Imagination” ; a unifying process, creating a synthesis out of the welter of sense perceptions,associations, ideas, attitudes, volitions, and imaginative experiences of the human mind. As Shakespeare says, the poet gives to “airy nothing”,in the sense of vague and confused feelings and thoughts, “a local habitation and a name”.

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