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Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing

Kukkonen, Karin

Hardcover

Literary CriticismWriting Instruction

ISBN10: 135052266X
ISBN13: 9781350522664
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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