Creativity and contingency in literary writing / Karin Kukkonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kukkonen, Karin, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contingency (Philosophy) in literature.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 256 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

"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 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."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgements

A Note on Translations

Introduction: The Second Book Problem

Chapter 1: Contingency Traps: Form to Contingency

Chapter 2: Contingent Selves: Contingency to Form

Chapter 3: Why One Form and Not Another? Form to Practice

Chapter 4: Paper, Type-Writers and Screens: Practice to Form

Chapter 5: Provoking Chance: Practice to Contingency

Chapter 6: Found Objects, Lives and Words: Contingency to Practice

Conclusion: When It's Finished

Appendix I: Overview of Interviews

Appendix II: Overview of Manuscripts

Appendix III: Citations in the Original Languages

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Names and Works.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-243) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781350522695

1350522694

9781350522671

1350522678

9781350522688

1350522686

OCLC:

1561171747