Poetic Creation : Inspiration or Craft.
Myths of creativity have changed throughout Western literary history. The Romantic era cherished the idea of creativity as a spontaneous, unpremeditated act, closely related to improvisation. In the twentieth century the myth of the writer as a worker amo.
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| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1980.
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| ISBN: | 9780816662333 0816662339 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Documentation and Experimentation; Improvisation
- Rite and Myth; Coleridge and His Dream Poem; E.A. Poe and the Aesthetics of Work; Paul Valéry and Le Cimetière marin; The Writing of Ibsen's Brand; Gösta Berlings saga and Its Transformations; Periodicity and the Stages of Literary Creativity; Inspiration Disputed; Concluding Unscientific Postscript; Notes; Index.