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Chargement... The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain (édition 2005)par Alice Weaver Flaherty
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Neurocognitive discussion of why people do write or do not write Haven't completely finished it yet, but an amazing look into the creative mind. As a writer (or writer-wannabe), I'm still intrigued by the brain's inner workings to produce creative material and wonder in vain why mine has seemed to give up and won't! A little like reading a college textbook but still very well-written. A little too much peripheral psycho-babble. I liked the areas of focus on the writer's issues, with block, and hypergraphia, but sometimes too much psycho-babble, and it lost me....I can study that in class, I don't want to read about it here. I wanted Flaherty to stay more on target with the intention of the book. Nonetheless, it was fairly interesting (in those parts). A little too much peripheral psycho-babble. I liked the areas of focus on the writer's issues, with block, and hypergraphia, but sometimes too much psycho-babble, and it lost me....I can study that in class, I don't want to read about it here. I wanted Flaherty to stay more on target with the intention of the book. Nonetheless, it was fairly interesting (in those parts). aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and then the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. The Midnight Disease charts exciting new territory in the relationship between the creative mind and the body. Flaherty argues for the importance of emotion in writing, illuminates the role that mood disorders play in the lives of many writers, and explores with profound insight the experience of being "visited by the muse." Her understanding of the role of the brain's temporal lobes and limbic system in the drive to write challenges the popular idea that creativity emerges solely from the right side of the brain. Finally, The Midnight Disease casts light on the brain functions and dysfunctions of writers past and present, from Dostoevsky to Conrad, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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