Artistic Individuality
Author: Zivile Gimbutas
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2012-09-21
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1479711101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study of a series of artist novels, individuality is elucidated by childhood experiences, sensuality and receptivity, the urge for self-expression, relation to nature, and creative work. Individuality is essentially the recognition of one s self as a unique part of a whole, which is apt to be discovered in kinship with nature and expressed in aesthetics that stem from an appreciation of nature. The featured novels are Willa Cather s The Song of the Lark, M. Allen Cunningham s Lost Son, James Joyce s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, W. Somerset Maugham s The Moon and Sixpence, Dodie Smith s I Capture the Castle, John Updike s Seek My Face, and Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse.