Poetic creation : inspiration or craft / by Carl Fehrman ; translated by Karin Petherick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fehrman, Carl, 1915-2010.

Standardized Title:

Diktaren och de skapande ögonblicken. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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; Notes; Index

Notes:

Translation of Diktaren och de skapande ogonblicken.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816662333

0816662339

OCLC:

476162087