Creative people at work : twelve cognitive case studies / edited by Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wallace, Doris B., editor.

Gruber, Howard E., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative ability.

Creative ability--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using their unique evolving systems approach and 12 cognitive case studies, the authors examine the work of such diverse people as Wordsworth, Einstein, Piaget, Anais Nin and Darwin, and dispel many popular notions about the creative act.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1. The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Work; 2. Studying the Individual: The Case Study Method and Other Genres; 3. Antoine Lavoisier and Hans Krebs: Two Styles of Scientific Creativity; 4. Writing and Rewriting Poetry: William Wordsworth; 5. Fields of Enterprise: On Michael Faraday's Thought; 6. How Charles Darwin Became a Psychologist; 7. Ensembles of Metaphor in the Psychology of William James; 8. Stream of Consciousness and Reconstruction of Self in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage

9. Imagery and Intuition in Creative Scientific Thinking: Albert Einstein's Invention of the Special Theory of Relativity10. Self and Oeuvre in Jean Piaget's Youth; 11. From Life to Diary to Art in the Work of Anaïs Nin; 12. Art and Elegance in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Robert Burns Woodward; 13. A Convergence of Streams: Dramatic Change in the Artistic Work of Melissa Zink; 14. Creativity and Human Survival; Name Index; Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028193-6

0-19-773511-8

1-280-76017-6

0-19-802228-X

0-19-536024-9

OCLC:

252639123