UID:
almahu_9949385600402882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 175 pages)
ISBN:
9781003080336
,
1003080332
,
9781000603156
,
1000603156
,
9781000603088
,
1000603083
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in creative writing
Content:
"Unreal City: Creative Writing and Depersonalization explores the common psychological symptom of depersonalization, its influence on literature and the insights it can provide into the writing process. Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Often associated with psychological disorders, it can also affect healthy people at times of stress. Beginning with a first-hand account of the experience, the book goes on to argue that many well-known literary texts, including Camus's The Stranger and Sartre's Nausea, evoke a similar psychological state. It shows how a concept of depersonalized writing can be found in the work of literary theorists from widely different traditions, including T.S. Eliot, Roland Barthes and Viktor Shklovsky. Finally, it maintains that creative writers can make use of the lessons learned from a study of depersonalization to arrive at a deeper understanding of writing. Given this knowledge, the controversial writing teacher's maxim show, don't tell, so often misapplied or misunderstood, can be repurposed as a practical instruction for taking students' writing to a new level of sophistication and wisdom"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Francis, Matthew, 1956- Unreal city. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367530686
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003080336
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003080336
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