The Seamless Web: Language-Thinking, Creature-Knowledge, Art-Experience - Hardcover

Burnshaw, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807605352 ISBN 13: 9780807605356

Publisher: George Braziller, 1979

Synopsis

If, as has been remarked, Stanley Burnshaw's The Poem Itself "permanently" changed our minds about verse translations, this new volume is likely to do the same with its far more inclusive subject. For The Seamless Web pertains not only to poetry but to all the arts, which it explores from a wholly new perspective, one that enables the reader for the first time to look at works of creative imagination from a vantage point not limited to the culture. "Who" is it what does the creating? To answer this fundamental question, one must take a fresh approach to the "person." This is provided in the opening chapter which shows that the arts are the expression of more than the arts are the expression of more than the creator's brain - of, in fact, his total organism. We see creativity emerging as an organic collaboration of all the constitutes the creator - of all that we mean by "conscious" and "unconscious" processes. The resulting products of these processes necessarily speak to the reader, listener, or viewer in ways that combine the irreconcilable differences between common and uncommon sense. The Seamless Web then deals with the peculiar kind of "knowledge" with which an artwork resounds in the reader, viewer, listener and shows it to be something that transcends the culture. This "something" the author aptly calls "creature knowledge." The final section of the book proceeds to explore the art experience in depth. Not surprisingly, this "organismic" approach results in a new illumination of all aspects of creativity for all who participate in its works.

About this edition

• Publisher: George Braziller
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0807605352
• ISBN 13: 9780807605356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320