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Title Genius : the history of an idea / edited by Penelope Murray
Published Oxford, UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1989

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Description ix, 235 : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Poetic genius and its classical origins / Penelope Murray -- The "super-artist" as genius : the sixteenth-century view / Martin Kemp -- The second Homeric Renaissance : allegoresis and genius in early modern poetics / Glenn Most -- Shakespeare and original genius / Jonathan Bate -- Goethe on genius / Michael Beddow -- The emptiness of genius : aspects of Romanticism / Drummond Bone -- Nietzsche on genius / Michael Tanner -- Deconstructing genius : Paul de Man and the critique of Romantic ideology / Christopher Norris -- What is musical genius? / Wilfrid Mellers -- Genius in mathematics / Clive Kilmister -- Genius and mental disorder : a history of ideas concerning their conjuction / Neil Kessel -- Genius and psychoanalysis : Freud, Jung and the concept of personality / Anthony Storr
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [231]-232
Subject Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History.
Genius -- History.
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726
Author Murray, Penelope.
LC no. 88035122
ISBN 0631157859