Music, Archetype, and the Writer: A Jungian View

by Bettina L. Knapp

The interaction between the writing process and musical motifs, systems of intensity, patterns of tonality, contrapuntal schemes, and multiple rhythms is obscure but fascinating. For some writers, Knapp tells us, sonorities flow archetypally from the unconscious, producing a nearly endless variety of resonant images and pulsations. Fresh feelings and innovative ideas are born. The creative writer uses to his advantage these paradoxically soundless...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271006242
• ISBN13: 9780271006246
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.