Unlike I.A. Richards or even his contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre, Bachelard was not interested in the formal structures of an image. He was fascinated by its material root. While traditional criticism might ask, “What does the river symbolize?” Bachelard asks, “What does water do to the imagination?”
Water, for Bachelard, is the most melancholic and reflective element. It is the "eye of the earth" that gazes back at us. 💧 The Core Philosophy: Material Imagination Bachelard distinguishes between two types of imagination: gaston bachelard water and dreams pdf
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Bachelard, G. (1942). L'eau et les rêves: Essai sur l'imagination de la matière. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. gaston bachelard water and dreams pdf