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Creative Imagination In Joyce Cary's Trilogies, E. Christian Jun 1979

Creative Imagination In Joyce Cary's Trilogies, E. Christian

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This thesis describes Joyce Cary's theories of creative imagination and how the characters in his two trilogies reflect those theories. To Cary, creative imagination is essential for society's improvement. He believes that everyone--not just artists and writers--can have creative imagination, and in his novels he shows the results of living with and without it.

Joyce Cary was born in 1888, in Ireland. His mother died when he was nine, but his close-knit family gave him the security he needed to develop his creativity. As a boy he voraciously read adventure stories and led a gang. Throughout his life he dealt …