Ronda Leathers Dively

Creativity and "the Paris Review" Interviews (eBook, ePUB)

A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Creativity and The Paris Review Interviews: A Discourse Analysis of Famous Writers' Composing Practices centers around a thematic discourse analysis of a 2000-page corpus of Paris Review interviews, focusing on the creative processes of some of the world's most famous fiction-writers and poets. The discourse analysis traces elements of the paradigmatic creative-process model-first insight, preparation, incubation, insight, verification-through the focal artists' descriptions of their composing practices as embedded in the interview transcripts. That analysis also reveals multiple and significantemergent themes germane to fiction and poetry writing. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to identify patterns relevant to the aforementioned creative-process elements and themes that are suggestive of specific strategies writers can employ to facilitate their own composing acts-whether fictional, poetic, or expository. Such findings will also benefit teachers seeking to facilitate student success in the composition classroom. Such applications to expository writing are bolstered by a thorough treatment of scholarship on intersections between creativity theory and composition theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785278457
• Artikelnr.: 63388530

Autorenporträt

Ronda Leathers Dively-retired Southern Illinois University Rhetoric and Composition Professor and writing program administrator-is the author of Preludes to Insight: Creativity, Incubation and Expository Writing (Hampton Press, 2006); Invention and Craft: A Guide to College Writing (McGraw-Hill, Inc., 2016); Invention and Craft 2E: Exercising Creativity in College Writing and Research (Anthem Press, 2024) and numerous articles on expository writing pedagogy and writing program administration.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Impetus, Contexts and Methods
2. Composition through the Lens of Creativity Theory
3. First Insight, or the Glimmer of Possibility
4. Preparation, or Research Broadly Conceived
5. Incubation, or Breaks from Conscious Attention
6. Insight, or the Eureka Experience
7. Verification, or Evaluation
8. Emergent Patterns
9. Implications for Writing Instruction
Appendix A: Coding Table
Appendix B: List of Cited Paris Review Interviewees
Appendix C: Diagram of Analytical Categories, Subcategories and Themes
References
Index.