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Creative Process Reflections on the Invention in the Arts and Sciences

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ISBN-10: 0520054539

ISBN-13: 9780520054530

Edition: 1985

Authors: Brewster Ghiselin

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This unique anthology brings together material from 38 well-known writers, artists, and scientists who attempt to describe the process by which original ideas come to them. Contributors include Albert Einstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amy Lowell, Rudyard Kipling, Max Ernst, Katherine Anne Porter, Henry Miller, Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Wigman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Henri Poincareacute; and many others.
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/22/1985
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.26" wide x 8.94" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Introduction
Mathematical Creation
Letter to Jacques Hadamard
A Letter
The Composer and His Message
The Musical Mind
Letter to Anton Ridder Van Rappard
Conversation with Picasso
East to West
Before Paris and After
Inspiration to Order
Making Pictures
Notes on Sculpture
Composition in Pure Movement
Dedication of the Rival-Ladies
The Process of Inspiration
Preface to Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads
Prefatory Note to Kubla Khan
The Name and Nature of Poetry
The Course in Poetics: First Lesson
Three Pieces on the Creative Process
The Thinking of the Body
Preface to the King of the Great Clock Tower
Long-Legged Fly
The Process of Making Poetry
The Making of a Poem
The Birth of a Poem
Narcissus as Narcissus
Remembering Hart Crane
Preface to the Spoils of Poynton
Working-Tools
A Conversation with Gertrude Stein
How Flint and Fire Started and Grew
Letter to Warner Taylor
Reflections on Writing
The Story of a Novel
Notes on Writing
Composition of Thus Spake Zarathustra
Subconscious Intelligence Underlying Dreams
Psychology and Literature
Conversation with George Eliot
The Biological Basis of Imagination