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University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
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...
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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
Translation of Diktaren och de skapande ögonblicken
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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;
