What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor 9780773557215

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What It Means to Write: Creativity and Metaphor
 9780773557215

Table of contents :
Cover
What It Means to Write
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
INTRODUCTION What Is Writing? What Is Creativity?
A A Preliminary Survey of Metaphors for Creativity
Creativity Is:
Muse
Madness
Evolution
Divergence
Algorithm
Incubation
Illumination
Play
Place
Commodity
Boundary
Amusement Park
Investment
Organism
Flow
Democratic Attunement
= The Metaphor Metaphor: From Experience to Language and Back Again
B Variations on a Survey of Metaphors for Creativity
Creativity Is:
Connection: Guillermo Martínez
Conversation: Mariana Docampo
State of Mind: Juan Diego Incardona
Dance: Vanesa Guerra
AFTERWORD Critical Metaphor Literacy and the Meanings of Creativity
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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