Creativity and the Agile Mind - A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon

Creativity is a highly-prized quality in any modern endeavor, whether artistic, scientific or professional. Though a much-studied subject, and the topic of a great many case-studies, the field of creativity research is still very much an open one. Creativity remains a field where absolute definitions hold very little water, and where true insight can only emerge when we properly appreciate - from a nuanced, multi-disciplinary perspective - the crucial distinction between the producer's perspective and the consumer's perspective. Theories that afford us a critical appreciation of a creative work do not similarly afford a explanatory insight into the origins and development of the work. As researchers, we must approach creativity both as producers - to consider the vast search-spaces that a producer encounters, and to appreciate the need for heuristic strategies for negotiating this space - and as consumers, to appreciate the levels of shared knowledge (foreground and background) that is exploited by the producer to achieve a knowingly creative effect in the mind of the consumer. This volume thus brings together both producers and consumers in a cross-disciplinary exploration of this complex, many-faceted phenomenon.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland; Kurt Feyaerts, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Charles Forceville, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Kur Feyaerts (Herausgeber), Kurt Feyaerts (Herausgeber), Charles Forceville (Herausgeber), Charles J. Forceville (Herausgeber), Tony Veale (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 15.06.2013
• EAN: 9783110293487
• ISBN: 978-3-11-029348-7
• Seiten: 380
• Abmessung: 167 mm x 28 mm x 237 mm
• Gewicht: 674 g
• Serien: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics; ISSN
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft