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Book: Creativity and the Agile Mind

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Title: Creativity and the Agile Mind
Subtitle: A Multi-Disciplinary Study of a Multi-Faceted Phenomenon
Series Title: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 21

Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton

Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/184570?format=G

Editor: Tony Veale
Editor: Kurt Feyaerts
Editor: Charles Joseph Forceville

Electronic: ISBN: 9783110295290 Pages: 380 Price: Europe EURO 99.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110293487 Pages: 380 Price: Europe EURO 99.95

Abstract:

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.