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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451517903321

Titolo

Creative people at work [[electronic resource] ] : twelve cognitive case studies / / edited by Doris B. Wallace, Howard E. Gruber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989

ISBN

1-280-76017-6

0-19-802228-X

0-19-536024-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WallaceDoris B

GruberHoward E

Disciplina

153.3/5

153.35

Soggetti

Creative ability

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; 1. The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Work; 2. Studying the Individual: The Case Study Method and Other Genres; 3. Antoine Lavoisier and Hans Krebs: Two Styles of Scientific Creativity; 4. Writing and Rewriting Poetry: William Wordsworth; 5. Fields of Enterprise: On Michael Faraday's Thought; 6. How Charles Darwin Became a Psychologist; 7. Ensembles of Metaphor in the Psychology of William James; 8. Stream of Consciousness and Reconstruction of Self in Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage

9. Imagery and Intuition in Creative Scientific Thinking: Albert Einstein's Invention of the Special Theory of Relativity10. Self and Oeuvre in Jean Piaget's Youth; 11. From Life to Diary to Art in the Work of Anaìˆs Nin; 12. Art and Elegance in the Synthesis of Organic Compounds: Robert Burns Woodward; 13. A Convergence of Streams: Dramatic Change in the Artistic Work of Melissa Zink; 14. Creativity and Human Survival; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

1. The Evolving Systems Approach to Creative Work, H. E. Gruber. 2. Studying the Individual: The Case Study Method and Other Genres, D. B. Wallace. 3. Antoine Lavoisier and Hans Krebs: Two Styles of Scientific



Discovery, F. L. Holmes. 4. Writing and Rewriting Poetry: Wordsworth, L. R. Jeffrey. 5. Fields of Enterprise: On Michael Faraday's Thought, R. Tweney. 6. How Darwin Became a Psychologist, R. T. Keegan. 7. Ensembles of Metaphor in the Psychology of William James, J. V. Osowski. 8. Stream of Consciousness and Reconstruction of Self in Dorothy Richardson's ""Pilgrimage"", D. B. Wallace. 9.