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'Tradition and the individual talent': T.S. Eliot for Anthropologists
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Hughes-Freeland, Felicia |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Description | This chapter is about artistic creativity, particularly embodied performance, in relation to time and established practice. I begin with the poet, playwright, essayist and critic T.S. Eliot's seminal essay 'Tradition and the individual talent' (1946 [1920]) to frame a discussion of creativity in relation to history, innovation and self-invention, and to answer the question 'who is the creative agent?' I also make some comparisons with a phenomenological model of creative performance. The second part of the chapter explores my ethnography of Javanese performance in the light of Eliot's ideas about creativity. I close by suggesting that anthropological pluralism in theories of creativity and agency allows for the coexistence of different temporal styles, and raise some more general points about the relationship of temporality to structure and agency. Book Name: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation |
| Related Links | https://content.taylorfrancis.com/books/download?dac=C2020-0-15242-3&isbn=9781003135531&format=googlePreviewPdf |
| Ending Page | 222 |
| Page Count | 16 |
| Starting Page | 207 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781003135531-16 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2021-01-07 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Creativity and Cultural Improvisation Cultural Studies |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
