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  • Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva advise women to stay in what they term the Imaginary, the place in which mother and infant are symbiotically united.

    Feminist Ethics Tong, Rosemarie 2009

  • Let us by all means return, then, to Queen Mab -- an epic apotheosis of the Jacobin Imaginary that -- in its phantasmal structure, in its exploration of the gap between words and things, in its anxieties about revolutionary agency and revolutionary change -- is also simultaneously the first great crisis poem of the Jacobin Imaginary.

    Introduction: The Return of the 1997

  • One of Dickman's poems is called "Imaginary Playground," and that phrase could be used to describe the book itself, which returns again and again to blue, unshakable reveries that explore the strangeness of how childhood actually feels to a child.

    NYT > Home Page By JEFF GORDINIER 2011

  • (link) Hm, I like the hyperlinking for characters in Imaginary Year, but I'm not sure it's something I can reasonably do in every chapter.

    ceciliatan: Web serial novel: how the experiment is going ceciliatan 2010

  • ” Say Hello To My Little Friend” first appeared in Imaginary Friends, and there is an imaginary friend in the story.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2010 » June » 14 2010

  • ” Say Hello To My Little Friend” first appeared in Imaginary Friends, and there is an imaginary friend in the story.

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch » An Edgar Nominee and Something Goofy 2010

  • Care for Some Whiskey is featured on her latest album entitled Imaginary Biographies and released in 2007 for Fussy Music.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Leerone – Care For Some Whiskey 2008

  • She has articles published and forthcoming in Modern Jewish Studies, La jornada literaria and Estudios and is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled The Wandering Signifier: Rhetorical Functions of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary.

    Erin Graff Zivin. Jewish Women's Archive 2006

  • In a new book called Imaginary Weapons, Sharon Weinberger looks at a weapons developer who chases after ideas that no else supports:

    It's just crazy enough to work. Tripp 2006

  • This is Christopher, aka The Imaginary Boyfriend, temporarily hijacking Shaken & Stirred to bring you an important announcement.

    What You Should Be Doing Right Now Gwenda 2003

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