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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784973103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0-19-773511-8; 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
• 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 Anaïs 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.