Description
First published in 1986, neither the creative process nor the art object, singly or together, has been often in the forefront of sociological attention. The author suggests that we may safely assume that art is multidetermined, and that an adequate explanation of creativity will draw upon the conceptual and evidential resources of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. This is a study building on Harry Murray’s classic Explorations in Personality of the 1930s.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Literary Experience and Personality 2. The Poet and the Projective Test 3. Poetic Creativity: Process and Personality 4. The Poet in American Society 5. Conrad Aiken: An Appreciation 6. High Culture and Popular Culture in a Business Society 7. The Sociology and Psychology of Art 8. The Courage to Be Leisured
