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Dreaming by the Book

Paperback • 2001 • English

Dreaming by the Book

By Elaine Scarry

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About the book

Dreaming by the Book explores the almost miraculous processes by which poets and writers teach us the work of imaginative creation. Writers from Homer to Heaney instruct us in the art of mental composition, even as their poems progress. Just as painters understand paint, composers musical instruments, and sculptors stone or metal, verbal artists understand the only material in which their creations will get made--the back-lit tissue of the human brain. In her brilliant synthesis of literary crit...Show more

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ISBN

9780691070766

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Dreaming by the Book

Format

Paperback

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