| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 327 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index. |
| Contents |
John Keats -- Joseph Conrad -- Eugene O'Neill -- Thomas Hardy -- Vladimir Nabokov -- George Orwell -- Heinrich von Kleist -- Thomas Wolfe -- Peter Shaffer. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hamilton, James. Life and art. London : Karnac, 2009 9781855756359 (DLC) 2009504582 (OCoLC)271774801 |
| ISBN |
9781849408400 (electronic book) |
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1849408408 (electronic book) |
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9781855756359 |
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1855756358 |
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