In this talk, Karin Kukkonen will propose a conceptual model for thinking about the different roles that contingent minds play in the creative process systematically along the terms practice, form and contingency. This talk is based on her forthcoming book Creativity and Contingency in Literary Writing (by Bloomsbury). Her discussion draws on interviews with literary writers, creative criticism, as well as the analysis of writers’ manuscripts as traces of their material practice, in order to show how literary writers profoundly remodel psychological phenomena such as imaginary companions and auditory mental imagery in the creative process.
The seminar will take place 7 November at Worchester College. To read more about her talk, please visit the event-page (occt.web.ox.ac.uk).