Life and art: the creative synthesis in literature
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Main Author: Hamilton, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Karnac 2009
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index
John Keats -- Joseph Conrad -- Eugene O'Neill -- Thomas Hardy -- Vladimir Nabokov -- George Orwell -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Thomas Wolfe -- Peter Shaffer
In this volume an inquiry into the nature of the creative process is attempted by paying close attention to the lives of various artists, poets, novelists and playwrights, and selected works of each in order to demonstrate an essential relationship between the two, and that it is most difficult to delineate the nuances of the creative act by treating them as separate entitites. Emphasis is placed upon the effect of early trauma, such as object loss and various forms of deprivation, as a powerful unconscious motivating factor and upon the dream and transitional object as facilitators of the cre
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 327 pages)
ISBN:1849408408
1855756358
9781849408400
9781855756359

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