http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/imagination Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:48:46 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:48:46 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/723/exploring-the-nature-of-existence-an-analysis-of-wallace-stevens-the-plain-sense-of-things By Claire E. Tuchel - In his poem “The Plain Sense of Things,” Wallace Stevens strikes out in a direction that differs greatly from the established norms and expectations of poetry before the Modernist era. Stevens, at times, moves against traditions such as iambic pentameter, structured stanzas and rhyme schemes, while at the same time relying on some of these structures to guide the reader through this poem. He further distances himself from other poets by obliquely investigating philosophical concepts in this poem and while he does rely on some imagery to communicate large, abstract concepts in relatable... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:48 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/723/exploring-the-nature-of-existence-an-analysis-of-wallace-stevens-the-plain-sense-of-things http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1679/effects-of-collectivistic-and-individualistic-cultures-on-imagination-inflation-in-eastern-and-western-cultures By Iulia O. Basu-Zharku - Previous research suggests that culture influences our autobiographical memories. This study sought to determine if the collectivism/individualism dimension of culture influences the process of imagination inflation. Forty college students were given an Life Events Inventory (LEI) with individualistic and collectivistic events, and had to rate their confidence that each event happened or not in their childhood. Afterwards, they were asked to imagine a set of predetermined individualistic and collectivistic events and a week later they rated their confidence on a new LEI. Participants showed imagination... Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:30 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1679/effects-of-collectivistic-and-individualistic-cultures-on-imagination-inflation-in-eastern-and-western-cultures http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/301/female-writers-in-the-18th-century-the-power-of-imagination By Natasha L. Richter - Female writers of the Eighteenth Century often focused on the role of the female imagination in novel writing, poetry composition, and as an outlet for temporarily escaping a harsh world.  In Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft focused mostly on the latter notion, the ability of a woman to employ her imagination in transcending the physical prison of an insane asylum, as well as the metaphorical prisons of a tyrannical marriage and an oppressive world.  Meanwhile, Anna Letitia Barbauld emphasized the artwork which the female imagination can fashion in her poem “Washing... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:10 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/301/female-writers-in-the-18th-century-the-power-of-imagination http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/300/memory-replacement-confabulation-and-repression-remembering-creatively By Michael C. Wiseman - The specific purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the factors that would permit an individual to dissociate himself from his true identity, including at a minimum threshold the change in knowledge of some personal events. It is not required that a person believe he is superman to have dissociated from his true identity; all that is required to fit the definition is for the person to blot out a memory of a single event and replace it with another. If someone goes to the store and buys apples yet distinctly remembers buying pears, this would be a perfect example of the phenomenon. With this... Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:49 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/300/memory-replacement-confabulation-and-repression-remembering-creatively http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/130/a-midsummer-nights-dream-imagination-romantic-love-and-the-creation-of-art By Natasha L. Richter - In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare plays with the themes of love, art, imagination, and dreaming to forge an overall meaning for his work.  His play within a play, found in Act V, expands on his themes and portrays the relationship between the audience and the performers on stage.  Specifically, Quince’s disordered prologue to the play mirrors the distorted reality characterizing the dreamy, nighttime woods; overall, the interjected play underscores Shakespeare’s larger aim of exhibiting the necessity of imagination and dreaming to the maintenance of loving relationships... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:39 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/130/a-midsummer-nights-dream-imagination-romantic-love-and-the-creation-of-art