Creativity
Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing
$66.61
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
8 March 1994
Summary
Is creativity a therapeutic, culturally enriching, and health-giving pursuit, or is it an outpouring of darkly unconscious, neurotically dangerous material? What have been some of the important modern influences on our assumptions and ideas about creativity?
Using a fascinatingly varied but beautifully controlled blend of approaches, Kevin Brophy places the creative writer and artist within a modern history of arguments over questions of creativity. He discusses creativity as a social…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522847864 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522847862 |
| Author: | Kevin Brophy |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 8 March 1994 |
| Weight: | 356g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 141mm x 214mm |
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Kevin Brophy
Professor Kevin Brophy is Professor of Creative Writing in the school of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. A widely published writer of stories, poems and articles, he co-founded and edited the vibrant literary magazine Going Down Swinging. Kevin’s books include the poetry collections Replies to the Questionnaire on Love (1992) and Seeing Things (1997), and three novels, of which Visions was short-listed for the 1988 Vogel Prize. He was 2005 recipient of the Martha Richardson Medal for Poetry.
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