Creativity by Kevin Brophy - ISBN: 9780522847864
Paperback
Using a varied blend of approaches, the author places the creative writer and artist within a modern history of arguments over questions of creativity, and discusses creativity as a social-cultural practice, presenting it as an historical, political and inevitably compromised practice which must always be in dispute.

Creativity

Psychoanalysis, Surrealism and Creative Writing

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  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    8 March 1994

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Summary

Is creativity a therapeutic, culturally enriching and health-giving pursuit, or is it an outpouring of darkly unconscious, neurotically dangerous material?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 Br…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522847864
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:214mm x 141mm x 18mm
About The Author

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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