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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 54, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has published a book entitled 'Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention' to illustrate what creative people have contributed in different domains and to educate...
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From:Sartre Studies International: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMuch has been written about Sartre's views on artistic creativity as communication, bur it has less often been remarked that the potential for not-communicating was inscribed from the outset within his theorisation of...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed* I suppose most science fiction writers expect to be asked by fans, "Where do you get your ideas from?" Those writers who anticipate the question probably have an answer ready. I'm sure you know what Harlan Ellison...
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From:The British Journal of Aesthetics (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe contrast between original and copy is not a continuum as Crispin Sartwell has suggested, but rather consists in discrete historically determined categories. These include the original, strict copy, reproduction,...
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From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Matrix is a psychotherapeutic tool aimed at expanding a person's consciousness, creativity and learning potential. It investigates specified modes of attention and functions through identification of sensations...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 144, Issue 5255-5256)I wish I'd written that, but it was Dylan Thomas in his introduction to Collected Poems 1934-52. I want to say something about creativity and art--their nature, their power--drawing on what I've learned over a life...
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From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThat invention is the first great leading talent of a poet has been a point long since determined, because it is principally owing to that faculty of the mind that he is able to create, and be as it were a MAKER.... But...
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From:West Branch (Issue 64) Peer-Reviewedaware [a-wa-reh] Japanese "that bittersweet vaguely poetic feeling you get around dusk, on a long train journey, looking out at the driving rain" like the day, driving home from Greece Ridge Mall (where you bought...
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From:English in Africa (Vol. 45, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIf we want to bring assessment into alignment with teaching and learning practices in creative writing, we will need to change our conceptions of teaching and learning themselves. I believe there is a precedent for a...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 143, Issue 5232)If I were to give this essay a title, it would be "Waiting for Calvin". Not John Calvin the theologian, nor Calvin Klein the fashion designer, but Calvin, a Navajo baby whose first laugh I travelled to Arizona in 1995...
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From: Essays on Canadian Writing, Summer[(essay date Summer 1978) In the essay below, Serafin discusses how Tremblay's use of language affects the theatricality, characterization, humor, and dialogue of the five plays comprising La Duchesse de Langeais, and...
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From: TDR: The Drama Review[(essay date 2003) In the following essay, Karimi-Hakak details the censorship he faced as a theater director in Iran, using his attempt to stage a production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE HUMANITIES and the rhetoric of creativity The interdisciplinarity of creativity research in academia has lent itself to a proliferation of inchoate ideas, definitions, and arguments, and yet, curiously, within...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedHow Creativity Can Help Public Speakers Touch the Hearts and Minds of Listeners. Pamela Sherstad, Grace Christian University Throughout history by making ideas public, speakers have the potential to motivate,...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 128, Issue 4)Four guys are standing on a street corner ... an American, a Russian, a Chinese man, and an Israeli.... A reporter comes up to the group and says to them: "Excuse me.... What's your opinion on the meat shortage?" The...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 2)AGAINST A WALL IN R&C APPAREL'S CROWDED factory, in an unremarkable building on 38th Street on the far western edge of New York City's garment district, is a vast collection of sewing machines shelved with curatorial...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 54, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSelecting a theme for a given issue of TLR is both exhilarating and completely imprecise. From the outset, we wanted to broaden the definition of "theme" so that it was inclusive while remaining definitive--the idea...
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From:Femspec (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis paper focuses on the intertwining themes of creativity, sacrifice, and radical imagination in two pieces of contemporary Black Speculative fiction, "Book of Martha" (2005), by Octavia Butler, and "El is a Spaceship...
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From: Studies in Short FictionIn “The Ravages of Spring,” John Gardner ingeniously re-creates Edgar Allan Poe's “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Yet, “Ravages” is more than an exceptional tribute to Poe's technique. As it re-creates “The Fall of the...
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From: Critical QuarterlyIn Naipaul's novels we trace the fortunes of the imaginative dreamer, the `trickster' or fantasist of bookish disposition whose dreams eventually find outlets and leave some small imprint on the world. Such a character...