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- catalog abstract ""Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and then the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. The Midnight Disease charts exciting new territory in the relationship between the creative mind and the body. Flaherty argues for the importance of emotion in writing, illuminates the role that mood disorders play in the lives of many writers, and explores with profound insight the experience of being "visited by the muse." Her understanding of the role of the brain's temporal lobes and limbic system in the drive to write challenges the popular idea that creativity emerges solely from the right side of the brain. Finally, The Midnight Disease casts light on the brain functions and dysfunctions of writers past and present, from Dostoevsky to Conrad, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13033029.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Alice Flaherty first explores the brain state called hypergraphia - the overwhelming desire to write - and then the science behind its antithesis, writer's block. The Midnight Disease charts exciting new territory in the relationship between the creative mind and the body. Flaherty argues for the importance of emotion in writing, illuminates the role that mood disorders play in the lives of many writers, and explores with profound insight the experience of being "visited by the muse." Her understanding of the role of the brain's temporal lobes and limbic system in the drive to write challenges the popular idea that creativity emerges solely from the right side of the brain. Finally, The Midnight Disease casts light on the brain functions and dysfunctions of writers past and present, from Dostoevsky to Conrad, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Hypergraphia : the incurable disease of writing -- Literary creativity and drive -- Writer's block as state of mind -- Writer's block as brain state -- How we write : the cortex -- Why we write : the limbic system -- Metaphor, the inner voice, and the muse.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "307 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0618230653".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Houghton Mifflin,".
- catalog subject "808/.001/9 21".
- catalog subject "Authors Mental health.".
- catalog subject "Authorship Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)".
- catalog subject "PN171.W74 F58 2004".
- catalog subject "Writer's block.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Hypergraphia : the incurable disease of writing -- Literary creativity and drive -- Writer's block as state of mind -- Writer's block as brain state -- How we write : the cortex -- Why we write : the limbic system -- Metaphor, the inner voice, and the muse.".
- catalog title "The midnight disease : the drive to write, writer's block, and the creative brain / Alice W. Flaherty.".
- catalog type "text".