Creativity : theory, history, practice /
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| Author / Creator: | Pope, Rob. |
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| Imprint: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2005. |
| Description: | xviii, 302 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5816526 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- ...before the beginning
- Part 1. Why creativity now?
- 1. Creativities old, new and otherwise
- Creation v production
- Radical aesthetics
- Re-imaging imagination
- Inspiration by 'an other'
- Twentieth-century problems
- Twenty-first-century solutions
- Part 2. Defining creativity, creating definitions
- 2. Defining creativity historically
- Divine creation from nothing
- Humanity begins to create imaginatively
- From creative artists to creative advertising
- Evolution: natural re-creation from something
- Creatures: monsters, machines, wo/men
- 3. Creating definitions theoretically
- Creativity is...
- ...extra/ordinary
- ...original and fitting
- ...full-filling
- ...in(ter)ventive
- ...co-operative
- ...un/conscious
- ...fe male
- ...re...creation
- 4. Alternative terms, emerging debates
- Inspiration and influence, from ecstasy to intertextuality
- 'Gen-': genius, gender, genetics
- Emerging complexity
- Play...game
- Order - fold here - chaos
- Part 3. Creation as myth, story, metaphor
- 5. Re-creation myths, ancient and modern
- Kinds of creation, kinds of creator
- A drop of milk, a word made flesh
- 'Aboriginal' dream-time
- Coyote makes 'a BIG mistake'
- Buddhist origination, Taoist non-being
- Idealists v materialists: universe or multiverse(s)
- Metamorphoses
- Cosmic law and order: gods and wo/mankind
- Babble...
- ...and Flood...
- ...back to the Beginning
- 6. New sciences for old
- Revolutionary science
- Big Bangs, black holes, bubble baths and soup
- Futures?
- Two, three, four...cultures
- Re...creation revisited
- Back to the future twice
- Part 4. Creative practices, cultural processes: a critical anthology
- 7. Rewriting creativity: the case of 'literature'
- Creativity and constraint 1: shapers, makers and patrons
- Divine inspiration into political intervention
- Creativity and constraint 2: sonnets by various hands
- Play world! Real life drama
- Re-generating genre: new from old in the novel
- Chaoses - some critical moments
- Real Romantic writers
- Dreams and drugs - from Coleridge to 'Coke'
- Literature other-wise
- 8. Transforming culture: an open invitation
- Collaboration, installation, confrontation
- Making musics
- Child's play, grown-up art, or just gaming?
- Healing: making whole
- Laughter, carnival, revolt
- Copying, reproduction, simulation
- Artificial-artful-intelligences-lives
- Designs on the future: shaping things to come
- After the end...
- Further reading by topic
- Bibliography
- Index