Poetics of the Creative Process
Femi Euba
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Description for Poetics of the Creative Process
Hardback. Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, Poetics of the Creative Process examines and analyzes the creative process of playwriting. It attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea to its expression as a theatrical performance. Num Pages: 172 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CBV; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 175 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, the book presents an examination and analysis of the creative process of playwriting through the insight of the very foundations of drama and theatre—the ritual process. Using the playwright as a ritual quester, it attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea, through the development of that idea, to its expression as a scripted and theatrical expression. To give the concept a wider scope, parallels and/or contrasts are often made with similar creative experiences, especially performative. The first part of the book visually crystallizes the ritual-creative ... Read more
Based on the author's teaching methods and experience, the book presents an examination and analysis of the creative process of playwriting through the insight of the very foundations of drama and theatre—the ritual process. Using the playwright as a ritual quester, it attempts to concretize the playwright's creative experience from the gestation of a dramatic idea, through the development of that idea, to its expression as a scripted and theatrical expression. To give the concept a wider scope, parallels and/or contrasts are often made with similar creative experiences, especially performative. The first part of the book visually crystallizes the ritual-creative ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761830047
SKU
V9780761830047
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99-15
About Femi Euba
Femi Euba, playwright, director, and actor, is Professor of Theatre and English at Louisiana State University. Professor Euba received an MFA in Playwriting and Dramatic Literature from Yale, and a doctorate in English from the University of lfe, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Reviews for Poetics of the Creative Process
The three appendixes—exercises, a one-act monologue, and a text analysis—will interest young playwrights in particular, but this is not a set of directions for beginnning dramatists. Rather, it is a meditation on craft.Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.
G.W. Clift
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G.W. Clift
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