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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"associationism"”.
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THE UTILITARIAN - ASSOCIATIONIST TRADITION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISHPSYCHOLOGY, 1855-1903 (VOLUMES I AND II) (ALEXANDER BAIN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, JAMES WARD, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON)
… There be a Natural Science of Man?" Critiques of associationism, by James Ward and others, attacked the very foundations of the Utilitarian-Associationist program.</p><p>The rejection of associationism did not entail a rejection of the tasks set for the discipline by the Utilitarian-Associationist …
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Mosaic: a study of juxtaposition in literature, as an approach to Pound's Cantos and similar modern poems
… precedents: so-called ‘pre-logical’ poetry, the associationism of Romantic poetry, Leaves of Grass, Rimbaud’s poems, Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés, etc. the work of European avant-garde poets of the 1910s (Apollinaire, Cendrars, Marinetti, et al.) is considered in detail, and the supposed originality …
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The City in Mind: Environmental Literacy and Adaptation in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
<p>This dissertation argues that a new paradigm of selfhood emerged in nineteenth-century British literature, one that recognized the individual will and environmental influence not as antithetical but as dialectical forces in the formation of the self. The concept of an externally negotiated …
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Making Sense in Nineteenth Century Britain: Affinities of the Philosophy of Mind, c.1820-1860
This work examines British inquiry into the human mind in the early nineteenth century using a multivalent structural analysis of ideas and practices within traditions established by Hume, Hartley, and Reid. While these traditions were propagated into the nineteenth century by such figures as …