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Tormenting Angel

Name: Tormenting Angel
Author: Florence Dee Boodakian
ISBN: 9780820445533

by Florence Dee Boodakian

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Literary theorists, psychologists, visual artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, composers, and many others have grappled with the complexities of understanding the genesis of creative imagination. This study opens up a new dialogue for exploring the process of imagining and the creation of "image-work." By exploring the psychological, physiological, and aesthetic aspects of the "process" of imagining, a direct and revealing link is made between "image-work" and "dream-work." This link centers on re-evaluating and rethinking Freud's "secondary revision." While this innovative theory is applied to modern literary texts it becomes obvious that this study addresses a much larger question about the genesis of creative imagination--a question that now has other dimensions as technological possibilities shed a new light on the creation of images. Christopher Collins, Professor of English, New York UniversityLarry Lockridge, Professor of English, New York University; Author of The Ethics of Romanticism and Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.

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Poet and literature scholar (U. of Pittsburgh) Boodakian explores the psychological, physiological, and aesthetic aspects of the process of imagining and the creating of image work. She develops a theory by re-evaluating and rethinking Freud's Secondary Revision and applies it to modern literary texts as just one example. This volume is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)