- Includes a first-hand account of the experience of depersonalization
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- Examines depersonalization in relation to well-known literary texts, including Camus's The Strange and Sartre's Nausea, and shows how the concept of depersonalized writing can be found in the work of literary theorists, including T.S. Eliot, Roland Barthes and Viktor Shklovsky
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- Explores how creative writers can make use of the lessons learned from the study of depersonalization to arrive at a deeper understanding of writing
Matthew Francis is Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has published six poetry collections with Faber & Faber, most recently Wing (2020). He is also the author of two novels, WHOM (Bloomsbury, 1989) and The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press, 2014), and a collection of short stories, Singing a Man to Death (Cinnamon Press, 2012). He has edited the poems of W.S. Graham for Faber and published a study of Graham, Where the People Are (Salt Publishing, 2005).
Title: Depersonalization and Creative Writing: Unreal City (Routledge Studies in Creative Writing)
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ISBN: 9780367530686
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-07-18
Number of Pages: 176
Weight: 0.3901 kg