{"product_id":"creativity-and-contingency-in-literary-karin-kukkonen-9781350522664","title":"Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first book to investigate, analyze and theorize the creative processes of literary writers, \u003ci\u003eCreativity and Contingency in Literary Writing \u003c\/i\u003euses author interviews, manuscript genetics and textual evidence to explore creativity from the authorial perspective. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStudying an author's practice, literary form and contextual contingencies as elements that affect literary creativity, Karin Kukkoken develops theoretical models for examining the age-old problem of artistic creation and how it has been put to works by authors from the nineteenth century to the age of digital fiction, across a range of languages. With insights from the cognitive sciences, anthropology and philosophy of mind as well as literary studies, the book calls upon interviews with Siri Hustvedt, Marina Warner, Anne Weber, Camille Laurens, Gwenaëlle Aubry, Kate Pullinger, Gunnhild  yehaug, Maria Stepanova and György Dragomán and studies the manuscripts of Charlotte Brontë, Cora Sandel, Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino.\u003cbr\u003eOvercoming the traditional distinction between creative agent, process and creative product, \u003ci\u003eCreativity and Contingency in Literary Writing\u003c\/i\u003e is as accessible and illuminating as it is important to understandings of human creativity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karin Kukkonen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 135052266X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350522664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d","brand":"Karin Kukkonen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065514045695,"sku":"9781350522664","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a0d776e5-866b-4008-a33b-8065dd5ec704.jpg?v=1768675459","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/creativity-and-contingency-in-literary-karin-kukkonen-9781350522664","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}