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Creativity and contingency in literary writing
"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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.