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Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Karin KukkonenPublish date:1/8/2026Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350522664ISBN-10:135052266XUPC:9781350522664Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Writing, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, AmericanBook Topic:Fiction WritingSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCNNK07H2P

The first book to investigate, analyze and theorize the creative processes of literary writers, Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing uses author interviews, manuscript genetics and textual evidence to explore creativity from the authorial perspective.

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 yehaug, 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350522664ISBN-10:135052266XUPC:9781350522664Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Writing, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, AmericanBook Topic:Fiction WritingSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SCNNK07H2P
Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has published several monographs, including Probability Designs (2020). Having previously held positions in Finland and the UK, she now leads the interdisciplinary centre "LCE - Literature, Cognition and Emotions", where she established the LCE podcast which explores how literature shapes thoughts and feelings.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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