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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fehrman, Carl, 1915-2010
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Swedish
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1980.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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.