The Mind's Best WorkHarvard University Press, 1981 - 314 Seiten Over the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his "Raven" was worked out "with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." |
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WITNESSES TO INVENTION | 9 |
CREATIVE MOMENTS | 41 |
WAYS OF THE MIND | 74 |
CRITICAL MOMENTS | 102 |
SEARCHING FOR | 130 |
PLANS DOWN DEEP | 162 |
PLANS UP FRONT | 190 |
LIVES OF INQUIRY | 220 |
HAVING IT | 245 |
THE SHAPE OF MAKING | 275 |
NOTES | 293 |
SOURCES | 301 |
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