The Mind's Best Work / / David N. Perkins.
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 &qu...
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Perkins, David N., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Mind's Best Work / David N. Perkins. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022] ©1981 1 online resource (324 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- A Parable -- 1. Witnesses to Invention -- 2. Creative Moments -- 3. Ways of the Mind -- 4. Critical Moments -- 5. Searching For -- 6. Plans Down Deep -- 7. Plans Up Front -- 8. Lives of Inquiry -- 9. Having It -- 10. The Shape of Making -- Notes -- Sources -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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." D. N. Perkins discusses the creative episodes of Beethoven, Mozart, Picasso, and others in this exploration of the creative process in the arts, sciences, and everyday life.Table of Contents: A Parable 1. Witnesses to Invention 2. Creative Moments 3. Ways of the Mind 4. Critical Moments 5. Searching For 6. Plans Down Deep 7. Plans Up Front 8. Lives of Inquiry 9. Having It 10. The Shape of Making Notes Sources Index Reviews of this book: A delightful book, easy to read, amusing and jammed with intriguing "personal experiments," puzzles for the reader that offer insights into creative thinking. It is a valuable book because it summarizes well the results of recent investigations and effectively debunks a variety of cherished myths. Read the book for fun. Read it to find out what psychologists are up to.--New York Times Book ReviewReviews of this book: The Mind's Best Work [is] a guided tour of the new psychology of creative thinking. Perkins belongs in that rare company of Lewis Thomas and other popularizers of science who combine a lively style, playful wit and discriminating scholarship.--NewsdayReviews of this book: A survey of scientific research that's also a work of playful wit.--Newsweek Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.). Creative ability. Création littéraire. Créativité. PSYCHOLOGY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674042032?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674042032 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674042032/original |
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