The Authority of Imagination: Making the Ideal Real

Authors

Maggie P. Monteverde, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

What then would I say is the value of poetry or fiction? I think the truest answers are drawn from our own experiences of literature (and by this I mean literature of all kinds, not just high brow materials we study in college, or even the classics, those works Italo Calvino says we re-read for love). No, for me the real value of literature is in these communities they create, within themselves and across space and time among those who experience those works.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Monteverde, Maggie P. (2010) "The Authority of Imagination: Making the Ideal Real," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 1, Article 14.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol1/iss1/14