Creativity, Culture and Values: Comparative Essays in Literary Aesthetics (New Studies in Aesthetics, Band 5) - Hardcover

Paolini, Shirley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820413410 ISBN 13: 9780820413419

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York, 1991

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This book examines the relationship between creativity and cultural values, including Western and Eastern perspectives. Creativity, as process and product, occurs within as well as against tradition from early to modern times. Shirley Paolini offers a pluralistic account of theories of creativity, drawing upon literary criticism, aesthetics, and psychology. She makes a case for Janusian thinking, the Collective Unconscious, and the dreamlike experience. The author extends theories of creativity in a series of primarily literary case studies. She compares works of Dante, Kafka, Dali, Blake, and Joyce; Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn; Twain and Michener, and Ai-Ling Chang and Li Ang. The book shows how creativity operates under varying cultural values and expectations.

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The Author: Shirley J. Paolini is Professor of English and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Barry University in Miami. She has held positions as Professor of Humanities and Dean of Special Programs, University Affairs, and Continuing Education, and as Assistant Academic Dean at Alaska Pacific University, Anchorage. She has published Confessions of Sin and Love in the Middle Ages on Dante's Commedia and Augustine's Confessions, as well as critical essays and reviews. She earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine, an M.A. in English from California State University, Fullerton, and a B.A. in English from Mount St. Mary's College. She held a Swiss Government Fellowship at the University of Lausanne. Among her honors is the Faculty Research Award at Alaska Pacific University.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0820413410
• ISBN 13: 9780820413419
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 239
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