Title Actual minds, possible worlds / Jerome Bruner.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.

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Location	Call No.	Status
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	153.3 B894A	Check Shelf

Description	xi, 201 pages ; 25 cm
Series	The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-192) and index.
Contents	Approaching the literary -- Two modes of thought -- Possible castles -- Transactional self -- Inspriation of Vygotsky -- Psychological reality -- Nelson Goodman's worlds -- Thought and emotion -- Language of education -- Developmental theory as culture.
Summary	Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.
Subject	Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
	Psychology and literature.
	Psycholinguistics.
	Psychology and literature -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
	Creativity. (DNLM)D003405
	Psycholinguistics. (DNLM)D011578
	Psicología y literatura -- Discursos, ensayos, conferencias.
	Psicolingüística -- Discursos, ensayos, conferencias.
	Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00882393
	Psycholinguistics. (OCoLC)fst01081323
	Psychology and literature. (OCoLC)fst01081551
	Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5
	Literaturpsychologie (DE-588)4036025-8
	Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
	Psycholinguistik (DE-588)4127537-8
	Psychologie (DE-588)4047704-6
	Literaturpsychologie.
	Psycholinguistik.
Indexed Term	Creativity
Genre/Form	Aufsatzsammlung.
Other Form:	Online version: Bruner, Jerome S. (Jerome Seymour). Actual minds, possible worlds. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986 (OCoLC)756442989
ISBN	0674003659 (alk. paper)
	9780674003651 (alk. paper)
	0674003667
	9780674003668
	0674029011
	9780674029019
Standard No.	9780674003668

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