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Syllabi August 24, 2018

Myth, Ritual, and the Creative Process

Course Level Format
undergraduate
Instructor & Institution
Thomas Peterson, Alfred University
Course Term & Year
Fall 1997
A 1997 course by Thomas Peterson at Alfred University explores "How and why are symbolic frameworks transmuted from certain forms to others through the creative imagination? Special attention to masking will help focus on "image" at the point where ritual and myth intersect with the performing and visual arts. Masking is also a place where identity and culture meet; it therefore raises the question about how the creative process is both a personal and social phenomenon."