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  title info:
    title: Creativity and contingency in literary writing
  name:
    name part: Kukkonen, Karin
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The first book to investigate, analyze and theorize the creative processes of literary writers, this book uses author interviews, manuscript genetics and textual evidence to explore creativity from the authorial perspective. Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing explores what happens when writers draw images, when the move between different languages and interact with there characters as a means to provoke and shape the raw material of creativity--contingency. Form, practice and contingency feed into each other in the creative process behind a literary text. Karin Kukkonen traces the interactions between these elements of creativity in manuscripts from Charlotte Brontë to Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino, in author interviews with writers like Siri Hustvedt, and in the literary texts themselves, developing a new theoretical model for examining the age-old problem of artistic creation."--Cover page 4.
  table of contents: Introduction -- 1. Contingency traps -- 2. Contingent selves -- 3. Why one form and not another? Form to practice -- 4. Paper, typewriters and screens -- 5. Provoking chance -- 6. Found objects, lives and words -- Conclusion.
  note: Karin Kukkonen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Authorship
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Contingency (Philosophy) in literature
  classification: PN171.P83 K85 2026
  classification: 801/.92
  identifier: 9781350522664
  identifier: 135052266X
  identifier: 9781350522695
  identifier: 9781350522671
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250320
    record change date: 20260407150149.7
    record identifier: in00005779231
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng