What it means to write : creativity and metaphor / Adrian McKerracher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKerracher, Adrian, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphor.

Creative writing.

Creative ability.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Think outside the box. Have a breakthrough. Avoid writer's block. In a time when people are increasingly curious about how to stand out from the crowd, the word 'creativity' can seem over-used and vague. What is it, really? In What It Means to Write, Adrian McKerracher examines the creative person in us all. His search takes him from Vancouver to Havana to Buenos Aires, where his mantra--I'm here to meet writers--leads to poignant new insights into a life of letters. Through encounters with artists of all kinds, famous or pedestrian, McKerracher traces a socio-cultural history of the meaning of writing, each vignette a meditation on the way that metaphor limits and liberates understanding. Creativity is a process, a possession, a relation, an algorithm, a game, and more. But the result goes far beyond an archive of the figurative. Along the way, a labyrinth of chance reunites him with old friends, threatens him with violence, and teases the invitation to remain forever in a place that is both real and imagined. His journey from cafés to libraries to late night living rooms embodies the structure of a bold new methodology for interpreting the complexity of creativity, demonstrating the tools for working productively with ambiguity and rebuilding meaning, one metaphor at a time. Told in character-driven narrative pulses that reflect on the nature of belonging, understanding, and loving, What It Means To Write is a celebration of the possibilities of both language and silence."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What is writing?

What Is creativity?

Preliminary survey of metaphors for creativity

Creatvity is: Muse

Madness

Evolution

Divergence

Algorithm

Incubation

Illumination

Play

Place

Commodity

Boundary

Amusement Park

Investment

Organism

Flow

Democratic Attunement

Metaphor Metaphor: From Experience to Language and Back Again

Variations on a Survey of Metaphors for Creativity

Creativity

Connection /Guillermo Martínez

Conversation / Mariana Docampo

State of Mind: / Juan Diego Incardona

Dance: / Vanesa Guerra

AFTERWORD: Critical Metaphor Literacy and the Meanings of Creativity

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780773557215 (PDF)

9780773557222 (EPUB)

9780773557215

0773557210

9780773557222

0773557229

OCLC:

1080210473