Creativity: Paradoxes & Reflections

ISBN-13: 9781888602944 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 210 str.

Harry a Wilmer

Opis

Essays from, among others, playwright Edward Albee, analyst Joseph Henderson, actor Lee Marvin, scientist Linus Pauling, novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer, critic and philosopher Jacques Barzun, literary critic Norman Sherry, and poet Naomi Nye on the creative life, focusing on the paradoxes and reflections of creativity: autobiography, literary biography, music, science, drama, poetry, storytelling, criticism, parageography, and war.Table of ContentsJacques Barzun - A Teacher Critic The Paradoxes of CreativityIsaac Bashevis Singer - A Storyteller Images and StoriesNaomi Shihab Nye - A Poet Discovering Ourselves Through Words: Pajamas in the WindLee Marvin - An Actor People Need People: Greater Consciousness of Human ValuesLinus Pauling - A Scientist An Extraordinary Life: An Autobiographical RambleJoseph L. Henderson - A Jungian Psychologist on Religion Symbolic Contents of the Inner World of ImageryAnthony Stevens - A Jungian Psychologist on War War and CreativityNorman Sherry - A Literary Biographer Confessions of a Literary Detective: Following in the Footsteps of Joseph Conrad in the Far East and AfricaPeter Ostwald - A Psychiatric Biographer Life and Music of Robert Schumann: On Keeping Music and Musicians Alive and WellDouglass Parker - A Parageographer Places for Anything: Building Imaginary WorldsEdward Albee - A Playwright A Playwright and Contemporary Society: A Discussion