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Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing
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Studying an author's practice, literary form and contextual contingencies as elements that affect literary creativity, Karin Kukkoken develops theoretical models for examining the age-old problem of artistic creation and how it has been put to works by authors from the nineteenth century to the age of digital fiction, across a range of languages. With insights from the cognitive sciences, anthropology and philosophy of mind as well as literary studies, the book calls upon interviews with Siri Hustvedt, Marina Warner, Anne Weber, Camille Laurens, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Kate Pullinger, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Maria Stepanova and György Dragomán and studies the manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë, Cora Sandel, Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino.Overcoming the traditional distinction between creative agent, process and creative product, Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing is as accessible and illuminating as it is important to understandings of human creativity.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2026-01-08
Publication Date:
2026-01-08
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
135052266X
ISBN13:
9781350522664
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Weight:
570 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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