The Mind's Best Work /

The Mind's Best Work / / David N. Perkins.

Show other versions (1)

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...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
VerfasserIn:
Perkins, David N.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©1981
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • 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

Similar Items